Word: plot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...very difficult in classic verse, was exceptionally good. The articulation, which could be noticed by the motion of the lips and the opening of the mouth--the chief characteristic of Latin tongues--was very marked. The movement of the play was fairly well sustained, giving fair unity to the plot, which is more complicated than those of past Cercle plays. The action was especially well sustained in the second and third acts. In the first act there was a little hesitation in the dialogue, which was soon remedied when the nervousness incidental to an initial performance wore off. Throughout there...
...stories in the issue are not particularly interesting; "His Good Example," by L. B. Cumming, is the best of them. None show any marked strength and originality of plot, or especially skillful handling of such plots as they have...
...Last Act," by George C. Hirst, if the only story in the number. The plot is one which requires strong handling of character and scenes to be made effective; in both the points the writer has failed and the story is weak and uninteresting in consequence...
...Midnight Freight," by I. M. Adams, is a story one enjoys, reading. A swift and strong style of narration has made the plot and the characters seem vivid and real. "An Experiment on Deduction," by A. Hollingsworth, is well planned and written. The rest of the prose in the issue is not interesting...
Last summer a plot of ground behind the north football stand on Soldiers Field was laid out as a practice cricket crease. Heretofore the cricket team has been severely inconvenienced by the lack of a good practice ground, but the new crease will do away with this want to a great extent...