Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Truth About Foxy Smith" wants the smoothness of diction of the story which precedes it, although there are several clever touches in the first part of the sketch. The plot has little originality...
...number is "The Masquerade Ball." Mr. DeWolf, its author. has dealt in this particular bit of fiction with scenes and people widely different from those he delineated so well in his story "After Twenty Years," in the Advocate. The story which appears today is a student reminiscent sketch, depicting in a perfectly natural manner the abyss of mortification into which a particular seaside resort, a particular girl, and a particular masquerade ball plunged a certain college man. The plot is clever and well worked out and the language shows no inappropriate word or phrase...
Tonight the curtain-raiser will be "Two Old Grads," a clever college sketch written by R. H. Post '91. It will be followed by the main piece of the evening, the "Obispah," the music of which has been composed by R. W. Atkinson '91, and L. S. Thompson '92, and the libretto written by B. A. Gould '91. Tomorrow evening Act II, Scene 2, from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" will be put on as a curtain lifter in place of "Two Old Grads...
...story of a caucus which meets for the nomination of an alderman. Several examples of the genus politician (including a man of unmistakable Irish accent), one or two jokes, and a short description have been poured into the author's crucible and the residuum is a political sketch, with no plot and of some interest...
...meeting of the Y. M. C. A., which was held last night, was addressed by Rev. Mr. Reed, pastor of Hope St. Church, Springfield, and Mr. A. A. Stagg, of Yale. Mr. Reed gave a short sketch of the need of college-bred men for the Y. M. C. A. work of this country. Where in former times there were only two ways for consecrated men to do active and successful work, at present the number of opportunities for special work is almost infinite. And the kind of men needed for this work are men capable of working with...