Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hard to find the merit by which the cover sketch deserves its place. The first-page drawing is a little better, showing some individuality of style. There are several minor sketches, on the other hand, especially one in regard to the Pump, which are apt and amusing...
...spring number of the Graduates' Magazine, which appears today, opens with a sketch of the life of the late Roger Wolcott '70, by Bishop William Lawrence '71, accompanied by an unusually good photogravure portrait of the late Governor. The article is written exceedingly well, and has none of the stereotyped dryness which is too often found in such sketches. the author has told the story of Governor Wolcott's life from his early school-days, and portrays the personality of the man with a happy appreciation of his character. This cannot fail to impress every one who knew...
Professor F. W. Taussig '79 has contributed a short sketch entitled "Harvard in the West." This is a summary of the impressions which Professor Taussig received on his westward trip last December, put into concrete and readable form. It is indeed interesting...
...number also has a photograph of M. Gaston Deschamps, a cut of the new A. D. Club-house, and a photograph of the late Charles Cotesworth Beaman '61, with a biographical sketch by J. E. Wright...
...require a sustained imagination, nor broadness and sanity in point of view. We do not require that the short story writer should have a philosophy of life or be a particularly deep thinker. The novelist deals with a whole, but the short story writer with a fragment, a mere sketch...