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...play is an oddity, as has been said, but it has some remarkably fine points. particularly in the matter of contrasts. Miss Alken, the author, has with consummate skill placed opposites side by side. Inherited and acquired refinement meet, and struggle with vulgarity and worse. Carelessness vies with efficiency; temperaments clash. Here and in the beauty of some of the lines (too often marred by imperfect diction) lies the achievement of the playwright...
...Collection of Western Art in the Boston Museum. The answer is obvious; each contains one work of marked excellence relieved against productions of more or less ordinary merit. The extraordinary object in the Boston Museum is the Greek throne; the thing of distinction in the Advocate is Mr. Alken's poem...
Poet--C. P. Alken, Cambridge; P. Mariett, Springfield, Vt.; H. T. Pulsifer, New York...
...Pearson '11 and H. Nickerson '11, 6-3, 7-5; E. H. Wilkins and H. L. Clark beat H. Peters '10 and G. E. Stepenson '10, 6-1, 6-4; S. P. Henshaw 3L. and E. P. Pearson 2L. beat F. P. Abbot '11 and C. P. Alken...
...Last Chapter of 'Smith's Decline and Fall of the World" suffers from an excess of imagination. Occasionally one finds vivid flashes, such as the incident of the last man and woman, but, as a whole, the conception is chaotic. Mr. Alken's sonnet, with its dramatic, almost conversational tone, is more novel than thoroughly effective. But the impression that it leaves of the rapscallion Villon is clear...