Word: tales
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...graduate committee of the Dramatic Club has selected four one-act plays for production this spring. They are: "Death and the Dicers," a mystery play adapted from Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale," by F. Schenck '09; "Five in the Morning," a tragedy in verse, depicting present-day life, by H. Hagedorn '07, and an unnamed western comedy by the same author; and finally an Irish farce suggested by an incident in one of Charles Lever's Novels, by L. Hatch...
...better bestowed on efforts to acquire mastery of a true English style and in developing powers of invention. Few are those who can overcome the handicap of dialect and produce a story worthy of the name in the strange forms of tongue so affected by some writers. A weak tale is all the worse for being put into queer speech, and a good one is not bettered. It is possible that the two specimens of dialect in the present number are masterpieces, but it would take a keen judgment to detect the fact...
...rest of the contents are of good average quality--for candidates. One story, "The End of the Quest," by S. Bowles, Jr., is the kind of tale for which the Advocate was long famous, direct, virile, and with an ending. The tendency towards melodrama one forgives for the sake of the actual interest. Two of the others belong also to well-recognized types: "Jack's Affair with his Conscience" recalling a familiar episode in Mr. Flandreau's book, and "A Symphony in D-Minor" being a variation on the familiar theme of Mr. Owen Wister's "Philosophy 4." The fantastic...
...rest of the number is ordinary in comparison with these. "The Taming of the Shrew" is a Robert Chambers tale of a southern man and a college cousin who emerge, like Shadrach and Abednego, from a very vivid forest fire to find themselves engaged. "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Art," is a typical college essay of the lighter sort, pleasant, facile, well-written, and without much significance...
...gratitude that Harvard has for these two men--one the wise and brilliant guide to the beauty of the past, the other the national leader in the advance towards intellectual freedom. In the "normal" class also belongs Mr. Grandgent's story, "The 'Medomac'." This is a thoroughly healthy tale of ghosts that turn out to be pirates, and mysterious uncles that reappear in order to die melodramatic deaths. Two pieces of verse may also be classed among the contributions which are "normal": Mr. Britten's translation of one of Paul Verlaine's lyrics, charming except for the clumsy third stanza...