Word: plot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Little '04, is a whimsical combination of humor and wild invention. "The Mermaid and the Schooner Scud" is quite as funny, quite as well told, and if possible even more improbable. "At the End of Four Years," signed "Ezra Kidd," gives a new version of a rather common plot, with a technique and setting decidedly better than the common. A mistaken impression that each number must have its quota of verses doubtless led the Advocate to insert such a sonnet as an "August Afternoon on Gay Head...
...Graduates' performance of the Hasty Pudding play, "Hi-Ka Ya," was given at the clubhouse last night. The music, which is exceptionally tuneful and well arranged, is the best feature of the play. The plot amounts to very little, but offers a few amusing situations and gives an excellent chance for scenery and costumes, which are remarkably good. The first act contains more music than either of the other two and in it the action is best sustained. Most of the fun comes in the second act, which also contains a good share of catchy tunes. The third...
...unusually vivid and interest-compelling story of the west. In its theme it has a little echo of Kipling's, "The Man Who Would be King," and in treatment something of its vigor. "Timothy Knox, Peddler," a story by G. B. Fernald, is not good, for it lacks all plot and the humor in its sketchy description is too palpably artificial. "An Aspect of the Three Years' Course," by J. A. Field and "The Three Years' Course at Harvard," by B. Wendell, Jr., present the undergraduate's reasons in favor of the old four years' work. "Birthdays," a none...
...contributions to the last issue of the Advocate are numerous. All are short; most are interesting. The "Wonderful Story of the Green Bag," by R. W. Page '03, is mysterious and thoroughly amusing. "The Romancer," by C. J. Hambleton '04, seems a trifle drawn out, as its plot is slight; but one can easily forgive, for the sketch is well written. Less can be said for "The Misogynists," by L. B. Stowe and "The Sleep-Walker," by G. B. Fernald '03. Both are of romantic trend, but neither is very literary or life like. "Le Petroleur," by E. R. Little...
...made all of it catchy and tuneful. The score is unusually large for a college production,--twenty-three musical numbers in all. The librettists, R. E. Edwards '02 and P. L. Coonley '03, have departed from the example set last year in "The Viking," by making the plot less logical, but funnier; and they have introduced more than the usual number of specialties. Three of the best are the Filipino quartette dance, the butterfly dance and a Japanese sword dance by H. Ohashi...