Word: vulgarity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first thought all these descriptions of our virtues may seem rather an unnecessary and vulgar form of advertising, but on consideration the merits of this far-reaching plan are evident. Across the Hudson River, the idea prevails that Harvard is too much a New England college, and that a man from the West is not welcome here. It is to dispel this unfortunate illusion and to present the true state of affairs in Cambridge that speakers are being sent throughout the country, armed with facts which cannot be controverted...
...belated grasp of a mother's love. So long as merely mother and son are before us, the author fares well, both in character-drawing and in his ability to sustain the scenes; but in the son's brief interim of idiocy, which involves an unscrupulous actress and her vulgar but honest husband, there is an undue amount of melodrama, even cruelty. For blind idealizing, even of the pertinacious, youthful sort, can readily be shattered without recourse to the more than bromidic--the bromidiac -- near-brilliant pink-shirt-stud. The other story in this number, "The Woman Who Wasn...
...told creditably yet lacking power. Mr. Whitman's "Chamburlesque" I cannot estimate fairly without reading the work it parodles--and this, if the parody is just, I should be sorry to do. If I were judging the story by itself, I should be tempted to call it capable but vulgar...
...Music, the universal art, is apt to come to him in its more frivolous and vulgar form, so that the regards it only as a light diversion. The exceptions to this class, men who, by fortunate environment, have experience of the best music as listeners and performers, realize that they have an invaluable resource and a quickened sense of beauty; that if such opportunity could be extended, in some degree, to the average college man, he would also gain a higher appreciation of the dignity of the art, and a considerable addition to the sum of his cultivation...
...Economy, by Professor T. N. Carver; The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist, Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick, Travellers' English, by Professor G. P. Baker; Die Stellung Amerikas sur Deutschen Kunst, by Professor K. Francke; Four Obscure Allusions in Herdu, by Professor W. G. Howard; An Introduction to Vulgar Latin, by Professor C. H. Grandgent...