Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Dean Briggs contributes a much needed article on "College Honor" to the October number of the Atlantic Monthly. It is in a way an elaboration of the talk given to Freshmen in English A and received by too many of them with polite indifference. To read the beliefs and hopes...
"When I speak of a college as believing in the truth, I mean first that its president and faculty must be honest and fearless; but I mean more than this. I mean also that a high standard of honor must be maintained by its undergraduates; for, far beyond the belief...
"Chin Wee," a poem, also unsigned, is a clever bit of versification -- nothing more. "The Eagle," by Roy Pier, is pleasing in conception and imagery, but halting in its rhythm. "On Lafayette Square," a prose article by R. Inglis, which concludes the number, is a good attempt at a difficult...
With a keen eye for situtation and a good judgment for details, Mr. Mitchell builds up a very well constructed play; but in conception and treatment of character he often fails so notably that his drama loses much of its ethical and aesthetic value. Becky, in particular, whom Thackeray made...
In the number of the Advocate out today the stories, as usual, outrank the verse. The poems, with the exception of "It Hath No Thorns" by Lyon Ives, seem decidedly forced and labored. Most aim too high, but an unsigned quatrain sets too low a goal and reaches it. The...