Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...publication. Local color, uncouth dialect, primal passion, heroic resignation, a moral struggle, and a savage fight march in perfect order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor's clever "Page from Gorky" seems pale and ineffective. After the reader has shuddered at "the great black raven" flapping slowly across the sky in Mr. Schenck's closing paragraph, he should take W. C. G. 's mild moralizing upon "The Dilletante" as an antidote...
...final lecture of the series will be given Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. M. Lefranc will sketch briefly the social conditions of Moliere's age and will also treat of the feminine element in his works...
...play, which is cast in the time of Fried rich Wilhelm I, is historical, and, curiously enough, its revival here coincides with its revival at the Royal Theatre in Berlin in honor of the Kaiser's fiftieth birthday, which was yesterday. The play itself gives a very entertaining sketch of the times of the father of Frederick the Great, contrasting his conservatism with his strictly military interests on one side, and on the other, with the new liberal movements which were taken up by the progressive elements of the court, especially the Crown Prince, and finally by the Queen...
...football season, and Mr. Fisher's description of the present condition of the Trophy Room, complete the November tribute to outdoor sports. Mr. A. K. Jones, who rang the College bell for fifty years, is the subject of a brief article with portraits. "Says Butler" is a good character sketch, well within the range of undergraduate observation and handling. Mr. Lippman's "Reply" to Professor Wendell's "Privileged Classes" shows keen and clever fencing without quite coming to a precise issue with his involuntary antagonist. A readable summary of Professor Coolidge's "The United States as a World Power...
...review of Professor Lowell's "Government of England" is the second article. The author summarizes the impression made by the volumes in the one word "magistrale." Under the heading "From a Graduate's Window," is a short sketch. "The Humors of the Quinquennial" in which the peculiar relations of the many, and the numbers of the most common names, are brought to light...