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...real protagonist of the production does not appear. He allows his work to register his virtuosity. He is Stephen Gosson, the architect who designed the sets. The costumer, one William Israel, is but a step behind him. Between them, with the help of a good director and a few thousand broadswords, they have constructed a thing of permanent beauty. Gothic architecture is, in the main, their medium; their background, the flashing pageantry of 16th Century France. So painstaking is their detail, so accurate their reproduction, so beautiful their finished product, that the French Chamber of Deputies has requested a copy...
...rather as a raconteur with a dash of Hazlitt and Lamb, than as a protagonist of conservatism and taut galluses that Mr. Lyons is interesting. "The Merry Wait" is one of the most finished of the stories, and the songs the Wait sings to spread Christmas cheer deserve framing or something better. This...
From Editorials to Verse Mother Advocate in the February number focuses her imaginative eye upon that "Sweet Dry and Dry" period which has slipped into place with so little outward effect. In fact, high tragedy has its day; from Mr. McVeagh's protagonist who "gathered up his feet and died" to Mr. Train's delightfully told adventures of Casimir Cashless and the Grand Keezer. Surely, if tradition err not, this is the number of numbers for an Eli to review. Coming from the wilds it has appeared to me that Harvard is essentially a quiet place where the soul...
...trouble with him, or rather the system, was that he could neither kick nor throw the forward pass; every one knew that when the went back a run was forthcoming. The great weapon of the kick-formation threat is versatility on the part of the protagonist and the perfect interplay of line and backfield. Harvard lost Mahan, but of course, will endeavor to find a successor--perhaps Flower, perhaps Casey--and then to effect an interlocking system in which each man will do his part to make the play a success. Yale will unquestionably use Le Gore in this...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "Homeric Characters in Sophocles." Mr. S. B. Luce.--"The Character of Odysseus in Sophocles." Mr. G. H. Gifford.--"The Development of the Character of the Protagonist in Sophocles." Mr. J. B. Munn. Harvard...