Word: vein
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ballard uC.; and "Ygraine of the Hill-folf" by R. E. Rogers '09. Prof. G. P. Baker in whose course all of the plays were written, believes that they will be of unusual interest. Mr. Ballard's sketch, in contrast with his other work, is in a serious vein, and "Ygraine of the Hill-folk" is the second drama in verse which the club has ever produced...
When Mr. Sanger blew off "Steam," the result was a creditable poem in Kiplingian vein. One or two infelicities of phrase fail to destroy our pleasure in verse where sense and music are happily combined. And we can overlook the exigencies of internal rime...
Miss Hawley's "The Foundlings" is in lighter vein. Two young girls happen, by mistake, into apartments which are in temporary use by a young lord, and are discovered there by two of his men friends, while they are paying him a visit. The complications that ensue are deftly handled with consummate skill, and the result is a delicate little comedy bubbling over with humor of delicious spontaneity...
...Union to a sense of what it is losing. There are many professors in this University who have favorite topics, which we can only catch glimpses of in their courses, and can never fully enjoy, for they are either off the subject, or are else in too light a vein for the most serious hours of work. If we could only hear the professors let loose in some of these fields, we should not only pass a pleasant evening, but should learn a great deal in the most pleasant and relaxed way. Perhaps, most important of all, we could...
...Ralph Roister Doister" marks the combination of classical and native elements in the English drama. The play follows the "Miles Gloriosus", of Plautus, but interprets the characters in the vein of Elizabethan comedy. The plot of the story centres about a town gallant who is made to believe that he is in love with a fascinating young widow. The climax comes with his disillusionment...