Word: climax
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yesterday afternoon. The play itself is representative of the tendencies of the modern French drama, and, as in many of its class, the author has been led by the purely psychological interest of his plot to overdraw his principal character, Robert Fergan, and to suit the demands of his climax rather than to fit the climax to his character. With this climax still in view, he has brought in a period of ten years between the second and third acts, which even the long and rather tedious accounts at the beginning of the last act fall to bridge over...
...common place. The writer shows an extensive acquaintance with Boston "taverns," and some slight knowledge of girls. In "The Tin Goddess," L. D. Humphrey '01 contributes a story of the expanded daily theme type. "A Serious Question" is a choice bit of realistic description, greatly marred by an anti-climax...
...that the baseball season here is approaching the climax of the Yale game, we should like to enquire with what aim the undergraduates have attended the contests of the past few weeks. If it has been merely to see two nines play ball, well and good, or rather well and bad, they might have satisfied their desire just as completely on the South End Grounds. If with any intention of rendering their team encouragement and support, their failure has been little less than ludicrous. A stranger in Cambridge attending one of the minor games, would have received the impression that...
...victory of the Sophomore Debating Club last evening was a fitting climax to a season of progress, which has proved conclusively the need of a debating organization open to second year men, and practically guarantees the existence of Sophomore Clubs in the future...
With tonight's contest Harvard's debating activity for the year of '97-'98 will be practically over. Whether or not with a climax of victory remains to be seen, but whatever the result, we feel justified in saying that the present year has seen a distinct advance in the debating system here, and in two directions too. Not only has the organization of a Sophomore Club increased facilities for debate, but the consolidation of the 'Varsity clubs has unified the whole system, and promises to keep the best debating men working together in the interests of the University, instead...