Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...phrasing used is slightly precocious, but this--if anything--adds to the charm of the story. In style, "In the Study" is the equal of any story which has appeared in the Advocate this year. "Seven Hours," by M. Seasongood '00, is not a very clever tale. Its plot is weak, and the dialect which is sprinkled through it is hardly successful. In "The Hangers -On," by L. D. Humphrey, is seen that much over worked form of the short story,--the expanded daily theme...
...clever imitation of Conan Doyle's style, the writer narrates an incident which has no part in the memoirs of the "great detective." Throughout, the story is well sustained, and, moreover, it shows a sureness of touch and a power over detail. The movement is swift and the plot is seemingly original. "A Journey's End," by C.F.C. Arensberg '01 is a conventional love story which contains some rather skilfully arranged dialogue. In "The Policeman," A. H. Gilbert '01, attempts a sympathetic treatment of low life, and, in seeking to accomplish this, he makes frequent use of cheaply sentimental phrases...
...current number of the Saturday Evening Post, Mr. Charles Macomb Flandrau '95 contributes a story of Harvard entitled "Prince Protococoff and the Press Club." Although the plot is fantastical the author has worked it up with enough probability to be very amusing. The tale is preceded by a slight introduction which brings the reader into the spirit of Harvard life which the story depicts. Mr. Flandrau has admirably pictured the careless, fun-loving type of Harvard student...
...stories, two of them no better than many other college stories, the third quite agreeably surprising in its conclusion. It is a rather fantastic colonial sketch by F. W. C. Hersey '99, beginning in a manner that comes near to being forced and affected, and apparently over-obvious in plot. But the last sentence shows the story in a new light, that is much more human and natural...
...James Wilton's Journey," by J. A. Macy '99, is a study of a matter-of fact business man, who is unexpectedly disturbed in his regular routine of life. "His Duty to His Country," by W. R. Castle 1900, is exceedingly timely and very much to the point in plot, for there must be some men who have other motives for enlisting at present than their duty to their country alone. "A Birthday Telegram," by A. S. Friend 1900, and "From Him That Hath Not," by H. M. Adams '98, are pathetic little tales, the latter a particularly delicate sketch...