Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fourth number of the Advocate appeared yesterday. The straightforward and unpretentious little sketch called "A Maker of Monuments" is written with such sympathetic tenderness that we feel as if its central figure, a dear old Colonel, whom we see writing his reminiscences of the war and smoking among his roses, must have been a real colonel whom its author had known and loved. In "The Sophist" we have much a variation of the perennial motif as Polonius might call the tragical-psychological. The bearer of the title-role convinces an enamored college-friend that there is no such thing...
...meeting was held last evening in Lower Massachusetts to organize the fencing squad for this year. Coach A. W. Holmes '03 gave a brief sketch of the history of fencing in the University. W. L. Bowman 3L., of last year's team, spoke of the theory of fencing and the nature of the sport. Captain C. A. Bliss '08 outlined in a general way the plan of work for the year...
...Diarism" is, in spite of the somewhat obvious influence of Henry James, much more individual than the other story, and its analysis of the prig who writes the diaries is done with considerable delicacy and in a wholesome spirit. Besides, R. M. Arkush '07 has courage to sign his sketch, and he gets his reward in the achievement of a kind of sincerity not easily cultivated under anonymity. In his discussion of "Swinburne's Relation to the Poetry of the Immediate Past and Future" J. H. Wheelock '08 is not quite articulate and not always grammatical. He is touched with...
...three professors in charge of the Greek Play, will give a lecture on the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus, Monday afternoon, at 4.30 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. The lecture is intended primarily for those who are unfamiliar with the play. Professor Smyth will give a sketch of the plot and a criticism with a view to bringing out clearly the character delineations, and will read numerous selections from the play, in Professor Goodwin's translation...
Yesterday afternoon Dr. Fulda gave a public reading in the Fogg Lecture Room, under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein. He read a short dramatic sketch entitled "Die Lastige Schonheit", and a few selections from his satirical poems...