Word: pleasingness
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By far the most pleasing and successful part of the magazine is its cover an artistic photograph of the facade Widener Library, taken by moonlight by R. H. Norweb '16. Even the diabocal printer, with all his little devils, he failed in his attempt to lure from the skilful piece...
The prose in this unusual number of the Monthly is scarcely less notable than the verse. Best of all is "Temptation" by Mr. Watson, whose fantastic yet unadorned humor is a gift rare indeed. The saints stirring "uneasily in their thrones" shows the white flash of genius. Mr. Fay's...
Perhaps the most pleasing feature of the season is that several men were developed into excellent possibilities for the University nine next year. The two twirlers, Loring and Hitchcock, performed well in the early season and deserved better support from their team in the later games. Hitchcock's best showing...
The poetic offerings are timely. Mr. Skinner boldly adopts "vers libra"; Mr. Nelson chooses a compromise--stanzas of two, three, or four lines, and a rhyme-scheme which wanders into couplets and out again. Three other poets show the influence of the season in a "Ballad of Love," a "Love...
"The velvet mask of bending night Sparkles with the sky's pale bloom," (!) is characterized by indeterminate Swinburnian sensousness with nothing of Swinburn's euphony. Mr. Norris easily surpasses the other poets. His "My Memories" is a charming trifle, while "Life" has pleasing metrical treatment and genuine simplicity of phrase