Word: cooperativeness
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Last year W. D. Edmunds Jr. '26 of Harvard won one of the two second prizes of the contest, Mary Lispenard Cooper of Vassar taking the other. Archer Winston of Princeton won the first prize, for which students in 84 American universities participated...
...Cooper the Novelist", Professor Murdock, Harvard 2, English...
...little essay entitled "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences,"--an essay, by the way, that can be recommended to anyone who likes his humor biting--Mark Twain delivers some of his opinions of the first of America's older novelists...
...There are," he says to begin with, "nineteen rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction--some say twenty-two. In 'Deerslayer' Cooper violated eighteen of them." Or again, "A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are--oh! indescribable...
...read the whole essay; and before you do, go to hear Professor Murdock speak on James Fenimore Cooper at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 2. His point of view will probably not be that of Mark Twain's, but it will also probably be more nearly right...