Word: plot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last report of your committee recorded the generous offer of the government of His Majesty, the King of the Hellenes, to confer upon the American School at Athens the site for a building near the plot of ground bestowed upon the British school...
...presence is most needed to strengthen his chance for nomination, yields to the fascinations of a fair conspirator and goes off on an excursion, only to came back too late and find that his rival has secured the coveted prize. The story is fairly well written, but the plot is by no means...
...much in the admirableness of the whole work; but when there is occasion for a dramatic scene, it is always drawn with power and truth and (notwithstanding the appearance sometimes of gracefulness sacrificed for strength) secundum artem. In fact, the novel is sterling throughout. It is good in plot and workmanship, and in the portrayal and conception of character; it is natural and lifelike, and it is interesting. It is all this not now and then merely, but continually, and with an even, level temper which looks as if the writer had kept carefully within the limits of what...
...could have a taken the place of the batch of daily themes. The practice of publishing these choice bits of literature is good, but five is too many for a paper of the size of the "Advocate." "A Fool's Revenge" is hardly a story, for there is no plot; but the author has taken a series of incidents, hackneyed by long use in college productions - a railroad train, a rescue, two falls and a young lady, with a handsome military hero and stupid rival - and has by clever arrangement made a very interesting sketch. The denouement is particularly happy...
Well, what was a very good plan has been spoiled by what the Yale Courant has spoken of as the ever present tendency on the part of the Yale man to distrust every step of his rivals. The proposed league was not a plot to injure Yale but to play base-ball...