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...society has yet constructed. The characters have their prototypes in every country town, the incidents are plausible, and the introduction of the travelling shown in the first act and the celebration of May day and Home Week in the second give abundant opportunity for treatment in a light vein. The songs are essential to the development of the plot, and as in the case of the dances, are not interrelated incongruously. The book is by D. P. Cook '05, and the music by E. H. Grey '06, A. T. Davison '06, and H. R. Cratt...
...fiction, "Sam Dodge: Lobsterman," an exciting tale, and "A Sleep and a Forgetting," a delicate psychological sketch, are by far the best. "Vanitas," by a graduate of another college, is but an inadequate account in would-be sarcastic vein of some phases of Harvard literary activity. "Coffee Pot" is chiefly a matter of hackneyed dialect, and "A Cruising Idyll," though interesting, is slight. "Romance for One" could hardly be more insipid...
...verses on "The Prosaic Age," may be taken as an editorial "Don't" for poetical candidates. The Misogynist's metrical will seems to have some broken cogs. "The Man who Comes up from the Crowed," is by a more experienced hand, and is in a more serious vein. The running satire on college men and things is sometimes rather lacking in point; but is at least not barbed with malice. All in all, the 1904 board has set a good mark for its successor...
...performance last night surpassed anything that has been done previously by the Cercle Francais. Each actor understood that the play was written in a totally different vein from last year's comedy, and in consequence made the gestures and intonations suit the parts. The "finesse" of the comedy was not lost when acted so intelligently...
Another essay on "Scholarship," is an investigation into the admitted superiority of the German scholar over the American. Following it is a paper on "Women," with a delightful vein of humor running through it, the purpose of which is to show American women how much they can learn from their German sisters, upon whom they are too apt to look down. The remaining essays are on "The Americans and the Germans," and "Americans Democracy," and are of a more general character...