Word: climax
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fitting climax for Captain Leonard's four years of play on Soldiers Field. His work was faultless. The confidence already placed in Coach Pieper has been further strengthened and the improvement that has taken place in the team in the last five games has been remarkable. Nothing succeeds like success and the University pins its faith on the team to make a clean sweep of the series...
...fails to vitalize sufficiently the figure of the young man. "The Inevitable," by E. B. Sheldon, is a pleasing little sketch portraying in symbolic form the passing of childhood. The only fiction in this number is "The Man Who Won," by H. B. Child. The story has a good climax, but the characters do not stand out clearly...
...about 80 members of the class in the Trophy Room of the Union tonight at 6.30 o'clock at which Dean Briggs will speak on some subject of interest. As this is the last dinner to be given under the management of the present class officers and marks the climax of the numerous small dinners given last year, every one who has a ticket should be present...
...from the Depths" Mr. David shows that he possesses good material, and as the story stands it gives one a vivid and gruesome picture of a mining accident. But as writing it has many faults. The short jerky sentences which might have been effective if used only for the climax of excitement become wearisome when used in paragraph after paragraph; and the writer's vocabulary lacks variety. The incident is related in the first person, but the style hesitates in a disconcerting way between the colloquial and the literary. Mr. Sheldon's "Delilah" is badly named, for the pathetic female...
...stories in the number, G. Emerson's "Fantoccini" succeeds in working the reader up to a pretty pitch of suspense, and comes near avoiding altogether the anti-climax which one has come to anticipate in tales of horror; while L. Grandgent's "The Everlasting Hills," after a highly conventional Class-Day opening, develops in a more original fashion; and only needed more space and a somewhat subtler analysis to be a psychological study of more than average interest. The critic of Alfred Noyes displays most of the vices of immature criticism: a lack of discernible method, a tendency merely...