Word: written
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Beach '13, author of "Let's Get Married," has written "The Clod," a short play laid in the mountain districts of the South at the time of the Rebellion. It tells with grim intensity the story of a woman, entirely calloused and deadened by the monotony of her life, and of her reaction to a wholly probable melodramatic incident that calls upon her for a volitional action to which she is unaccustomed. The struggle between her almost atrophied will and events that demand forceful direction makes an engrossing play of character and action...
...Dramatic Club will present three plays this spring, two of which were decided upon yesterday. "The Clod," is written by E. L. Beach, Jr., '13, author of "Let's Get Married" which was presented last fall. Mr. Beach is a graduate of Professor Baker's course, English 47. "The Bank Account," the other play chosen, is by H. F. Brock, editor of the Boston Post...
...this seems damning with faint praise, the trouble is not so much with the Advocate as with the reviewer. For such work he, like all his colleagues, is too old. College papers are written by undergraduates to be read by undergraduates. Are not undergraduates the best people to review them? Any officer of the College, even "the young assistant," must have a point of view so different from that of undergraduates that to him the most conspicuous trait of undergraduate publications is likely to be youth. Now we may all, like the middle-aged teller of Mr. Conrad's glorious...
...also in 1913 Harvard men shared in the honors of these competitions. Fifteen essays were submitted in 1912 on "The Appointment of Higher Municipal Officers by the Merit System." The prize was awarded to Arthur Dexter Brigham '12, of Dorchester. In 1913 ten essays were written on "The Best Sources of City Revenue." The first prize was awarded to an undergraduate of Radcliffe College and the second to Edward Augustine Lawlor '15, of Lawrence...
...Illustrated is quite right in refusing to regard itself as a vehicle for literary graces, but profiting by Mr. Coggeshall's admirable contribution on Oxford, it should realize how infiantely more readable is an article treated with distinction than one slovenly written, however interesting in subject matter...