Word: authorize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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should be worth artistic treatment, and work even on a college story may well be artistic in every sense. "The Yale Game" is thin and unattractive in plot and substance and not particularly well written. The author can do much better...
...Sketches" - One recognizes the author from the individuality of the style - the first is the better. It is written in a happy easy style and the touches of humor and hints of character make it real and interesting. The second sketch is overdrawn and not worth printing or writing...
...former is connected with college life and is carefully treated. The chief fault of the latter is the extreme conventionality of its plot; but it is saved from mediocrity by skilful treatment and the atmosphere of indefinite pathos to the whole. It is well written and if the author can find more original plots he promises to become an interesting writer...
...Sargent was by no means homounius libri, a man of a single book, but few scholars have shown more devotion to a chosen author than he has manifested to his beloved Horace. That classic writer was always a favorite of the learned. The perfection of his style, the admirable truth and discrimination of his critical judgment, the charming companionable familiarity of his Odes, the thoroughly human feeling which pervades them, qualified by the sensitive fastidiousness inseparable from the highest cultivation, - fit him for the scholar's intimate and the student's guide. Few could appreciate these excellences so fully...
...privilege to be introduced to the great augustan lyrical poet and critic by one so thoroughly conversant with his author, and so deeply imbued with all the distinguishing qualities of this refined, genial, clear sighted, thorough-bred Roman gentleman...