Word: dialectic
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...author is less felicitous in the rather vague and inadequate solution that he suggests than in describing the various stages of psychological depression, where he writes with more conviction and vividness, evidently from personal experience. The unacademic note is distinctly and pleasantly struck again in the well managed dialect and lingering atmosphere of the trenches in the story entitled "Aiming at Auntie," another of the "Billet Ballads." It is not only the tantalizing moment at which this first part of the tale ends that makes the reader look eagerly forward to the continuation in a subsequent number. Curiously enough...
...scientific culture" of modern Germany. Method was exalted above character. It was held that all learning was of equal educational value, provided only that it was scientifically pursued. History became a searching of documents; literature became philology. Shakespeare and Chaucer were no more important than the dullest Middle-English dialect. The result was that the field of learning was divided into innumerable "courses" and "half courses," the Theory of Photography counting as much for a degree as the basic principles of biology. A systematic, organic grouping of studies was difficult. An American university education became a thing of shreds...
...however, in "The Hand of God," by Mr. Strout, and "A Glow of Sacred Fire," by Mr. Henderson, both of them stories of rural life and both of them tragic in theme, that the excellence of the present number of the Advocate chiefly consists. Dialect presents many difficulties even for the trained hand, and in this regard Mr. Strout and Mr. Henderson have acquitted themselves remarkably well. Of the two stories the former is the more ambitious, and is, perhaps, partly on that account, the more uneven. The semi-detached prelude, in which for a moment the author intrudes...
...programs ever given at these gatherings. After Professor George Herbert Palmer '64 read the story of Christ's birth from the Scriptures and the "Hymn" from Milton's "Ode on Nativity"; Miss Margaretta Josephene Penick, of the Emerson College of Oratory, rendered her interesting program entitled, "An Evening of Dialect." E. E. Dale 2G entertained the guests with a sketch of cowboy life, and C. W. Chenoweth '13G read several selections. Vocal music was rendered by a quartet composed of A. A. Rouner '20, M. A. Shattuck '19, W. H. Gardner '18 and H. A. Roberts...
...Evening of Dialect" will be rendered by Miss Margaretta Josephene Penick, of the Emerson College of Oratory. C. W. Chenoweth '13G will give a reading and E. E. Dale 2G will sketch some incidents of cowboy and Indian life in the West...