Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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The original Chinese play, written by T.C. Ma '09, was very well done. The second act, in which the dialogue was in English, was very clever, and many bright remarks were passed. The game which followed, in which four men tried to keep a shuttlecock from striking the ground, by...
...that chance by. The atmosphere is admirably reproduced by a few telling lines and the children are treated with something of that realism and sympathetic humor which one remembers in the street scenes of Marie Bashkirtseff. Finally the style, which is unmannered, has charming personal quality. The piece is characterized throughout by vitality and truth. "The Bravery of Terrence" by Mr. John L. Warren is the best told of the stories. It relates an amusing point of view, which is unusually well realized and sustained. It is distinguished from the other two stories by greater maturity of manner and evenness...
The work of the University crew yesterday afternoon was varied in character. The men went upstream to the Brighton bridge, rowed down as far as the Boylston street bridge, and then took a stretch upstream again as far as the Stillman Infirmary, before returning to the University boathouse. The distance...
The current number of the Advocate is unusually varied in matter, but the variety is unfortunately not indicative of excellence. The story, "A Village Iconoclast," by F. E. Greene '07, can claim as its only merit the sympathetic character drawing of the spinsters. This, however, is a quality rare in...
After a humorous talk by S. Ervin '08, in which he outlined the policy of the Junior board for next year, Mr. H. C. Merwin '74, one of the original board of the "Magenta," briefly described the origin and character of that paper. There is a great contrast between our...