Word: plot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...plot in the main is as follows: Lovewit, after the death of his wife, retires to the country, leaving his house in the care of Jeremy, his servant. Jeremy forms a partnership with Subtle, a sham alchemist, and setting up furnaces and apparatus in Lovewit's house, they prepare to conjure money from the credulous. Disguised as Captain Face, Jeremy lures in customers, and then as the grimy servant of the Alchemist, assists in gulling the victims. The play represents a day's business, one customer following another. Dapper wants a "familiar" to make him win at cards. Drugger comes...
...play this year, "Pension Scholler," is perhaps the most farcical which the Verein has yet presented. The plot makes up in its rollicking humor any deficiencies in the way of probability, and is a veiled satire on the foibles and follies of modern life...
...eyed Son of the Chief," is the most meritorious prose contribution, for it has ingenuity of plot and facility in expression. "The Prodigal Uncle," is a purported humorous tale, in dramatic form; it is somewhat too forced to seem anything but artificial. The other stories are above the average, and out of the rut of the ordinary undergraduate short story...
...largest of the proposed institutions to be affiliated with the new Harvard Medical School. It has been planned by the trustees to erect an elaborate set of buildings on a section of the large lot of land upon which the Medical School is being built. The desired plot has a frontage of 945 feet on Huntington avenue and an option upon it has been secured from the Corporation...
...libretto for the theatricals to be presented by the Pi Eta Society this year will be written by D. P. Cook '05, and the music will be composed by A. T. Davison '06, assisted by F,. H. Grey '06. The plot of the play has already been outlined and much of the music written, but no name has yet been decided upon. The performances will be given just before and during the April recess. W. M. Hurd '04 has been appointed executive manager and N. H. White '95, as head coach for the play...