Word: plot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Plot the play is without. The musical numbers are not that kind which one has difficulty in driving out of his head. Few of them make any impression at all. One exception to this is a song entitled "Oh My!" which Mr. Brian, aided by a male chorus which can actually sing, succeeds in getting across. There are no great beauties in staging, no splendid costuming. The humor, decidedly reminiscent, takes one back to good old antediluvian days and many of the lines which are presented to Mr. Frank Youlan, who upholds the comic muse, might well have been left...
...started work on the 25-acre wood lot at Cedar Hill Farm, Waltham, owned by Miss Cornelia Warren. On the holiday 12 students worked, and on the following day 50 continued the wood-cutting. Throughout the remainder of the vacation large numbers worked daily, finally succeeding in clearing the plot of its fuel supply...
...very essence of June is within us, we can go to Ye Wilbur and laugh heartily or sigh and pray to some god to put us on that steamer. The ankle in question is at all times lovely, and it is the most prominent part of the rather confused plot, for by the treatment of a sprain suffered by this same ankle, a poor but attractive doctor secures a means of livelihood a series of adventures, and a charming wife. For, you see, sometimes a little ankle has great potentiality...
...Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Comparative Literature of $100 has been awarded to James Buell Munn '12, of New York, N. Y. The subject of Munn's essay was "The Development of Plot and Characterization in Early Greek and Early Elizabethan Tragedy, with Special Reference to the Works of Aeschylus and Marlowe." Munn is a fifth-year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Stranger" has been written by Miss Leonore Loveman, who was formerly a student in Professor Baker's English 47. In three acts, the plot concerns the hostility of ancient customs in Hungary to American ideals, the former represented in the hero and the latter in the American heroine. The action throughout the play takes place in Hungary, and inasmuch as Miss Loveman, the author, is a native of Hungary, she is well informed as to the traditions and mode of life of the people in that land...