Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rest of the number, rather the best contribution is "The Home Coming of Jerry Mills," by Robert P. Vail '99. It is a story with a definite point, and a distinct climax...
...able to record for a long time. In both the Harvard representatives outclassed strong opponents. These victories, coming directly after the winning of the shooting match with Princeton and the defeat of the Yale freshmen in debate, stirred up something like the old student enthusiasm and made a fitting climax to a very successful week. The victory over Cornell in baseball was most encouraging, coming as it did at a time when the confidence in the team was somewhat shaken. It is now generally felt that the Harvard Nine is a good one, and that if the standard of Saturday...
...becomes rather monotonous toward the end. Moreover the play does not seem to be evenly balanced, all of the action excepting the denouement itself coming in the first act. For this reason the second act fails to retain the interest of the spectator, and seems almost an anti-climax...
...Strange Story," by D. Winter, seems to have been rightly named, for it is unreal in the extreme. The author, after leading his readers through a mass of unreality to a tragic climax, leaves off abruptly, offering no clue of any kind to the mystery. The stroy is ineffective largely on this account...
Robert P. Utter's story entitled "A Fate Forestalled" does not excite one's interest at first. In the climax, however, the success of the whole piece is at once crystalized, and the reader is left with the impression that the story is distinctly worth while...