Word: crude
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first performance of "Le Pedant Joue" was given last night in Brattle Hall. Considerable credit is due H. B. Stanton '00 and his assistants who have taken a crude, old fashioned play, cut it down, and remodelled it into something fit for the modern stage. But more remodelling and curtailing might have further improved the performance. Throughout the first and second acts there was a tedious succession of long monologues and one-sided conversations in which the speakers, as a rule, overacted their parts. Meanwhile the rest of the cast stood inactive and apparently inattentive...
...drawings, the cover-piece alone shows an artistic touch; but, unfortunately, it is scarcely original. Representing a "lone couple" sitting on a sand dune and gazing fixedly on the open sea, it looks like a crude copy of Gibson's "Solitude." The centre picture is intended as a caricature on the recent yacht race, but is neither clever in design nor amusing in point...
...editorial the frank statement is made that "The Advocate and the Monthly certainly are not so crude as the periodicals" of some of the smaller " 'universities,' but they are not one iota more accurate than these periodicals in their attempt to represent the literary standard which one has a right to expect of the college...
...moreover that they were not so understood by undergraduates here, and that if noticed at all by Yale men, which is improbable, they would not be considered either swaggering or insulting. In short, though we acknowledge some doubts as to the advisability of publishing verses which are necessarily so crude, we do not consider that any one inside or outside of college would have strong grounds for regarding special lines, or even the whole composition, as a serious expression of college opinion...
...their presentation of a consistent comprehensive line of argument; on the other hand, their rebuttal work was unexpectedly weak. The Prospect Union men made more attempt at direct rebuttal and their first man was the best of the evening in this respect. In form, they were all rather crude but they were distinctly ready speakers. In the matter of argument they differed in a marked degree. The first speaker was as logical in presentation and as well-informed on the question as any man on either side; but the other two men expended their time too much in platitudes...