Word: detective
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Clark clinging to his chosen form--unrhymed and at times unrhythmical verse. "Spring" is sincere, sensitive, and despite its form truly poetic. "Soul of Man" is more incoherent and, I suppose, more completely "modern"--a riot of rich color, with no composition which the ordinary uninitiated reader can detect. Mr. Denison is modern in form only; in all other respects his "Dusk" is a very conventional piece of description...
...Except perhaps that it lays more emphasis on the construction of plays and less on the development of histrionic talent, the "47 Workshop" is very similar in purpose to the Dramatic Club. It is a trying out place for the best plays written for English 47, a place to detect those weaknesses of a play which are brought out only by an adequate performance. The audience is especially selected with a view to the value of its critical judgment, and each member is asked to submit a criticism in order that the play may be rewritten in the light...
...stroke at 34, and, though the freshmen spurted to 38 at intervals, won by several lengths. No time was given out. There were no changes in the orders of the crews. Coach Kennedy is continuing to give his men the benefit of long rows, finding that thus he can detect the weak points in the crews. There will be little morning practice until examinations are over tomorrow...