Word: readers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...characterization in "Ruth," than in either of the two previous tales; but the story is clear, vigorous and wholesome. Two lovers quarrel and separate, but are again joined at a crisis in the life of the heroine. Simple and straightforward, "Ruth" is the type of story that the undergraduate reader thoroughly enjoys. Very different from "Ruth," is J. P. Sanborn's frail story, "Conclusions." Like Cyrano de Bergerac, the writer may be said to "set forth to capture a star and then to stop to pick a flower of rhetoric." In style and treatment, "Conclusions" is good and clever...
...Saturday Evening Post, Mr. Charles Macomb Flandrau '95 contributes a story of Harvard entitled "Prince Protococoff and the Press Club." Although the plot is fantastical the author has worked it up with enough probability to be very amusing. The tale is preceded by a slight introduction which brings the reader into the spirit of Harvard life which the story depicts. Mr. Flandrau has admirably pictured the careless, fun-loving type of Harvard student...
...current Advocate contains four stories rather above the general average of college literature in point of literary skill. All of these have something to relate, and the interest of the reader is claimed at the very start and kept to the end. The writers do not indulge in fine writing or unusual phrases but take the sensible course of the story-teller who is interested in his plot for itself and not for the opportunity of showing his knack as a prose artist...
...from a college point of view is "The Surprises of Sanders" by H. P. Huntress '99. The plot is rather improbable but there is just enough surprise in it to give it justification. Strange to say the real heroine of the tale plays a very small part, and the reader is left wondering why she was introduced at all. She is certainly interesting when she does appear...
...Bellows '99, is skilfully written and interesting in plot. The writer leaves the ordinary path of the college story and strikes out in a road of his own. The tale is perhaps best described as a character sketch in which the main figure is shown under varying conditions. The reader's interest continually increases until the very end when the author breaks off abruptly and leaves the climax to the imagination. The effect of this style is good and places the sketch above the ordinary run of college stories...