Word: sion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mitchell's poem, which follows, "From the Arabian Nights," is the best verse in the number, a pleasing experiment with the difficult Spenserian stanza, though, as we say in "Composition," courses, conspicuous more for "elegance than force." "When the Suspenders Came Off," a seasonal sketch, by Mr. Ben Sion Trynin, is the largest piece of fiction in this Monthly. It has the makings of a good story, but it is rather rough in workmanship and not always of crystal clearness. The bit of verse following, "From a Warm Room," one is uncertain whether to take seriously or humorously. After this...
...Watson's study of Bandelaire under the title "The Greatest Decadent," together with the story "Poet of the Ghetto" by a Ben Sion Trynin--an obvious and awful pseudonym--remain the only things really worth while in the number. The first is, if not profound, at least refreshingly sane and balanced in these days when to be young is necessarily to be decadent--or one would imagine so from recent Monthlies. The second, apart from a shabby and sentimental plot, possesses, in dialogue and description, a sense of actuality of life on the East Side of New York that...
...Department of English, Professor Barrett Wendell's "Raleigh in Guiana." The recent performance by the Dramatic Club of Mr. Percy MacKaye's "Scarecrow" was the first presentation at Harvard of a play by one of the younger graduates already well known for his dramatic work. The ver- sion of the "Faith Healer" to be used at the Harvard performance is a complete rewriting of the play since its publication. Both the author and Mr. Miller feel that, while preserving all the merits of the original form, it is even better for acting purposes...