Word: plot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stories, "Little Brother" is undoubtedly the best. Its characters are Harvard men who do not "merely sleep in Cambridge," as a recent reviewer has remarked of most undergraduate heroes of fiction; it has atmosphere and color, and a sufficient plot; and in its fundamental idea that straightforward honesty is the surest means of success it emphasizes one of the most cherished of Harvard ideals. The other two stories are well written, but neither is strikingly original. The greybearded spinner of the impossible story of "Dead Man's Pine" is vividly and convincingly drawn, and the inconsistencies of his yarn...
...play is in two acts, the first laid in a New York hotel, the second in a broker's office in the same city. The plot centres about James Percival Brown, a recent graduate of Harvard, and Joshua Phineas Brown, a Chicago millionaire, whose initials are accidentally the same. While Joshua P. Brown is expected to arrive at a certain prominent New York hotel, James P. Brown, on the day of his arrival registers at the same place, and, being mistaken for the millionaire, is given a magnificent reception. He also accidentally opens a letter to the millionaire from...
Bookman--"The Subservience of Plot and Some Recent Novels," and "William John Locke--An Appreciation," by F. T. Cooper '86; "Teaching Ideals," by A. H. Carpenter...
...manliness and for righteousness; such was not the most typical of the decadents, Oscar Wilde. Of the stories, "The Treasure Voyage" by E. G. Curtis '09 and "The Difference" by E. B. Sheldon '08, it is enough to say that the first shows far more definite attempt at plot and the second more vigorous character drawing than one is accustomed to find in undergraduate productions...
When the new buildings were planned, two conditions were recognized as imperative to the best results: easy access to hospitals for the intimate study of disease and available appointments in such hospitals. Accordingly, the Corporation has made offers to various large hospitals of parts of the 26 acre plot belonging to the University with the result that at present, three institutions, the Brigham Hospital, the Children's Hospital, and the Infants Hospital are prepared to avail themselves of these opportunities. Plans for the buildings are being drawn and work will be begun as soon as possible...