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...Wood's "Grip of the Tropics" "grips"-but its Madam Butterfly motif is far from...
...class of the mediocre belong the three bits of verse, "The Jap Doll," "Lamentation," and "The Caravan." The first transposes the "Madame Butterfly Motif" into the familiar key of Kipling's dialesticisms. The second is a highly colored trifle as frail as the "jewelled veil gossamer" that its writer mentions. The last is purposeless but inoffensive. Like so much modern verse, all of these compositions lack the bone and fibre of solid thought and poetic necessity. They leave the impression that their authors sat down and cried, "Lo, I must produce a poem," and then cudgelled their brains...
...through the number hastily--one starts at the cover, in which T. Sizer '16 shows the Christmas exodus in a well-received drawing with stained glass shadow motif. The prologue is a lyric, suggesting "ye oldene tyme," and is appropriately followed by E. E. Hagler's frontispiece, "Under the Mistletoe," done in the ante-bellum crinoline style. After a realistic diary of the musical club's western trip by H. Wentworth '17, one comes to the editorials...
...feel as if its central figure, a dear old Colonel, whom we see writing his reminiscences of the war and smoking among his roses, must have been a real colonel whom its author had known and loved. In "The Sophist" we have much a variation of the perennial motif as Polonius might call the tragical-psychological. The bearer of the title-role convinces an enamored college-friend that there is no such thing as the power of love, and with such effect that "It's all over" between the friend and his affianced. The "Power," embodied in none other than...
...well-written character sketch. The person described is a student living under the curse of polarity. When others around him are happy he becomes miserable, and when others are sad and gloomy his spirits rise even against his will. This characteristic in a person might furnish the motif of a long and elaborate piece of work, in which the workings of such a disposition could be studied...