Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dick" Cleveland, son of the former President of the United States, undertakes to do at Princeton as a student what Owen Johnson as an author sought to do at Yale through the influence of a popular piece of fiction, which, after all, was not entirely fiction. Nearly all the big schools in the country have to do with the problem which Princeton now is debating. In all of them there are societies and clubs, more or less secret, membership in which is esteemed an honor to be prized, and the influence of which in many instances is highly beneficial...
...missing in his departure. Those who have not been fortunate to study under him still know the sympathy and the humanity of his interpretation of literature. Under his guidance students have learned to regard the masterpieces of literature with as much interest and intimacy as it they were contemporary fiction--the highest meed of praise. By means of his charmingly written books he has awakened a real love of literature in wider fields than the University. Perhaps his greatest contribution is his personal influence on the literary tastes of the present generation...
...serious, and he makes us feel that his irresponsible hero is an actual human, attractive, normal Harvard undergraduate, a trivial person, no doubt, but far more appealing than the disembodied soul who suffers through the story by Mr. Wright. Mr. Paulding has not made an important contribution to American fiction, but he has written easily the best thing in the Monthly, which leads one to hope that he will keep on writing college stories with the same delicate and playful touch...
...present issue of the Advocate, that word would be spontaneity. On one hand, spontaneity best characterizes the wide variety of subject-matter, the liberality of form and the exuberance of spirit, which are throughout apparent. On the other hand, spontaneity may account for a quantity of old-fashioned fiction out of proportion to its merit, and one or two lapses in the choice of words...
...book reviewer is on safe ground in describing the works under discussion; when he passes to generalizations about American fiction he becomes futile...