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...again rowing 7. The crew is still in the barge and will probably stay there until a few days before they leave for New London. The rowing has not improved much since the class races. The catch is hard but it is not carried through with any effect. The watermanship is very poor. A quicker catch with a proper handling of the oars and a steady pressure from the stretchers to the end of the stroke will soon make the boat go faster...
...Criticism such names as Sante-Beuve and Taine are household words among English-speaking students. Yet the effect of criticism is less visible than might be expected, for criticism is, after all, a follower and not a predecessor of literary movements...
...fiction realism is the strongest. The movement has aimed to depict life by a minute description of objects. It soon became an art documentaries and degenerated into naturalism. The original desire of the French novelist was, by the description of exterior features to bring about in the reader the effect of the antecedents of which this feature is the consequent. But as two persons are unlikely to be affected in the same way by a phase of life, the novelist to retain a leadership was obliged to seek novelty, what is rare and curious. He soon turned to the abnormal...
...charming and interesting picture is given of the choir-boys of St. Paul's Cathedral, their life, duties and pleasures in the good old days when the Tudor family reigned over England. Much space is given to a description of their acting and the literary effect of these companies of choir-boys; for from the beginning of the English drama to the close of the theatres, children played a prominent part and affected both the acting and the literature of the Elizabethan stage...
...notorious. Happily, they now seem ended; and indications point toward settled methods to be pursued year after year in boating and in other sports, just as they have been successfully followed out in our track athletics. When such a system is once settled upon for all our sports, its effect, strengthened by the new spirit which Captain Cumnock first brought to our athletics two years ago, will begin an era fo uninterrupted prosperity for all our sports...