Word: plot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the Freshman dormitories were built last year, thirteen small trees were planted in the plot of land between Smith and Standish Halls. Since the soil was not good, they did not grow very well, and therefore were taken out last fall...
...work here digging large holes in preparation for planting larger and more vigorous trees. The land between Standish and smith Halls is divided into two plots. Seven trees will be placed in the plot in front of Standish Hall and six in front of Smith. These thirteen new trees will be elms, about fifteen feet high, and will be planted as soon as the frost thaws out of the ground. The work is being directed under the supervision of R. T. Fisher, head of the Forestry Department...
...Lady Decides" is a three-act musical comedy. The book is by J. W. D. Seymour '17 and W. L. Munro, Jr. '16, lyrics by P. S. Davison '16, music by O. A. Gundlach '17. The plot of the piece, stronger than that of the usual musical comedy, follows the adventures and misadventures of a young couple who, after exciting adventures on a summer night are put into a deep hypnotic sleep by a jealous and very wealthy Indian prince. One hundred years later the pair are awakened by a Hindoo Swami, a son of the jealous prince. They awake...
...know the end? The best works of art are so inestimably satisfying in each particular as to inhibit curiosity. I give the Monthly the highest praise when I say that I find nothing dependent for its value upon any "interest," either that which seeks the solution of some fictitious plot or of some human problem. Interests are easy and perceptions difficult, yet to experience the present is the end of all culture...
...club received an especially enthusiastic reception in New York and won much favorable comment. The book was good and worked up into a reputable plot, as musical comedies go. The singing was on the whole excellent and although it savored at times of the regular college burlesque, still there was a marked absence of the dramatic barbarisms which too often overflow undergraduate theatricals. The chorus was most attractive, the "girls" wearing their clothes naturally and dancing extremely well...