Word: dialectic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...number is less ambitious. There are two sonnets, and a scene from nature in quatrains. Under the title "Them Marionettes," R. Altrocchi has cleverly adapted from the Neapolitan of Trilussa the description of a box of puppets after the play is over. The incongruity of the masquerade of dialect words and phra67ses in the most exquisite of literary forms humorously suggests the world of the marionettes, and the perfect equality and fraternity that prevail in the box symbolize the artificiality of social distinctions. This point is obscured, however, by the simile "like slaughtered sheep"; nor is it, strictly speaking...
...Modern Language Association and the American Dialect Society will meet December 28, 29 and 30 at Providence. Professor C. H. Grandgement '83, secretary of the Association, to Professor H. Schofield '87, Dr. H. DeV. Fuller '98, Dr. A. M. Potter '95, Dr. S. G. Morley p.'99, Mr. H. S. Jones 2G. and Mr. J. L. Lowes 3G. will all read papers before the societies...
...Hotchkiss is an expert in the languages of different African tribes, particularly that of one large tribe, whose dialect he has been collecting and translating, with a view to introduce English works among the people...
...Department of Romance Languages in Boston University, will lecture in Spanish before the Sociedad Espanola in Phillips Brooks House, this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject will be "La Reciente Actividad Literaria en Espana." Professor Geddes is a member of the Dante Society, the American Dialect Society, and the Modern Language Association of America, and has written a number of texts for the study of romance languages...
...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...