Word: plot
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...urging a new bridge on Boylston street. The need of this improvement has doubtless been felt by every man who has listened to the creaking chains and rusty joints of the present structure. "At the Gate" by R. W. Child '03, is very obvious as far as the plot goes, after the first page. The effort to introduce more of the college element into college stories, however, is commendable and does much toward making it acceptable to undergraduate readers. "From Oxford to Henley-on-Thames," by F. R. Dickinson '03, is pleasantly written, but drags toward the end. A sketch...
...stories in the present number are hardly as good as those in the last. "Duck-Shooting," a sketch by F. R. Dickinson, is an attempt at word painting. The plot of "A Stranger in a Strange House" by Roy Pier, is a familiar one and the writing seems rather mechanical in places. G. S. Franklin's story, "Was it an Hallucination?" is told in a convincing way and moves steadily from beginning to end. The best piece in the number is "Hank Peters' Code," by F. R. DuBois. Aside from being a clever character study, it shows a thorough knowledge...
...stories, "Tom Morley, Waiter," by Arthur Holden Gilbert, is written in an offhand vein well suited to the subject. The point might have been reached as well in fewer words. Though the plot of "A Spool of Thread" by Forbes Watson, seems a bit trivial, the story is well told, with good detail and imagination. The best part of "The Sea," by A. P. Wadsworth, is the straightforward style in which it is told. A clean setting is made in the fewest possible words and the story is free from interruptions...
...Schluck und Jau," the play which the Deutscher Verein will present next winter, is one of the latest works of Gerhart Hauptmann. It appeared only last winter and was enthusiastically received in Berlin. It has not yet been presented in this country. The plot is as follows...
...spirit and movement. The burlesque, though clever, will need cutting down; the act indeed would not lose by the omission of the quintette. The surprising and unexpected situations which abound in the play carry it along and give it great interest. In itself the play has but little plot and the book is of slight worth, but few Pudding plays have had such good music. The words too of the songs are wonderfully good. Undoubtedly the best figure of the play is W. Edmunds '00. He is convulsively funny, and compares very favorably with J. C. McCall in last year...