Word: unrealized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...September Graduates' Magazine is largely concerned with the events at the close of the last academic year. In addition to a full report of the Commencement proceedings, the Phi Beta Kappa oration delivered by C. J. Bonaparte '71 entitled "Our National Dangers, Real and Unreal" is printed complete. "Town and Gown in Old Times" is an account of incidents in student life at Cambridge over fifty years ago, and "From a Graduates' Window" is an unsigned comment on indiscriminate Class Day cheering in which the abolition of the "three long Harvard's is urged. Dr. Darling contributes a summary...
...curious story with an unreal situation. The mountains with their queer people and customs are faithfully and vividly painted, however, and analyses of character are masterly. One feels though that they somewhat overbalance the story...
...tell the story of a boy, who, isolated from the world during his youth, finds life a bitter disappointment. The story is well told, with a tender, though sad, picturing of nature and life. The author's conception of boy-life is at times a bit strained and unreal, but more often consistent and true to nature. The style is good throughout, and in places admirable. The author excels in word-painting, which gives to her descriptions a living quality which they would otherwise lack. In her endeavor for vividness, the author occasionally over-reaches herself; as, for instance, when...
...other hand, much in the book is cleverly done, although the author is at times unreal. The descriptions are especially good, leaving a crisp and vivid impression in the mind of the reader...
...consideration of "The Epic Value of Scenes in Stevenson's Writings," by F. L. Waldo. The former is a well writen and cleverly told story. The writer deals with a comparatively hackneyed subject in an interesting way. Although in one or two places he is a trifle unreal, as a whole the story is successful and readable. The consideration of Stevenson's work deals with the striking characteristic of that author,- his vividness of style. As the author says, "Vitality, lyric, treatment of incident, 'epic value of scenes'- these were the qualities Stevenson could best appreciate in other authors...