Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Undergraduate opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of the contention that the purpose of the examinations is not attained. A few minutes' hurried reading of a selection which may range in subject matter from architecture to fiction is not a dependable test. The man whose special field is chemistry, whose need and probable ability lies in scientific German, is likely to be asked to read a description of the battle of Sadowa, or the retreat from Moscow. This means not only a wrong emphasis, but a decided and unfair advantage to the man who happens to draw something "in his line...
...quality of the literary output from the colleges. Things have changed since Bryant published his "Thanatopsis" in the North American Review. Almost every other department of college activity has seen a marked rise in efficiency, and there is no reason why this field should be left undeveloped. Recent "college fiction" has shown the acute need of sanity and skill in this field, at least. It is no logical objection to say that the undergraduate is not mature enough to write for the average reader. It is not so great a task to produce very readable fiction. There are numerous fields...
...real. President Lowell's view of the matter, which will probably please "Puck" if not the pacifists, is followed by an article on "Where the Student Camps Really Threaten," by H. A. Larrabee '16. Mr. Larrabee is inclined to adopt the omniscient style which is permissable only in fiction. Possibly that is why Mr. Larabee uses it in his article. At any rate, he dismisses the charge that the camps breed militarism entirely too casually...
...Arabian Nights," is the best verse in the number, a pleasing experiment with the difficult Spenserian stanza, though, as we say in "Composition," courses, conspicuous more for "elegance than force." "When the Suspenders Came Off," a seasonal sketch, by Mr. Ben Sion Trynin, is the largest piece of fiction in this Monthly. It has the makings of a good story, but it is rather rough in workmanship and not always of crystal clearness. The bit of verse following, "From a Warm Room," one is uncertain whether to take seriously or humorously. After this come the "Glimpses," of Paris...
Among the many books which have recently been published, or are forth-coming, are many by graduates of the University, embracing subjects ranging from fiction to mathematics, and from travel stories to text-books on economics. Among the most important of these are "Works," by Charles C. Grafton LL.B. '53; "Christian Life in the Modern World," by Francis G. Peabody '69; "Democracy of the Constitution," by Henry Cabot Lodge '71; "Paris War Days," by Charles Inman Barnard '74; Within Prison Walls," by Thomas Scott Osborne '84; "The Boston Symphony Orchestra," by M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87; "Clark's Field...