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...fiction, in the stricter sense, this number offers only two slight sketches by Mr. Emerson Low. In both of these the behavior of the characters is a little stagy and unnatural, and the author seems chiefly interested in drawing psychological contrasts. He makes his point more clearly in "The Divine Moment" than in "Walls of Stone...
...Criticism in France, will be made a full course and closed to undergraduates; Comparative Literature 1, European Literature, formerly given by Professor Wendell, will be withdrawn; Comparative Literature 11, the Romantic Movement in the 19th Century, will be made a full course; Comparative Literature 12 hf., the Types of Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries, will be given as a half-course; Fine Arts 5m hf., Durer, Holbein and Cranach, will be a new course; Fine Arts 5n hf., Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Raphael, will be a new course; Fine Arts 5p hf., Florentine Engraving, will be a new course...
...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...