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Professor George H. Palmer '64 will read the story of Christ's birth from the Scriptures, and a selection from Milton's "Ode on Nativity." Miss Margaretta Josephine Penick, of the Emerson College of Oratory, will give "An Evening of Dialect." In this entertainment, Miss Penick will give her admirable interpretation of German, Italian, Scotch, negro, Irish, Hoosier and child dialects. E. I. Dale 2G, who makes a specialty of Western folklore, will give a sketch of cowboy and Indian life on the frontier. Speaking from his own wide experience in the Western States, he will make his part...
Toward the end of the number, the authors become increasingly conscious of the war. Mr. Simpson contributes a lively and amusing, though rather extravagant story in British nautical dialect of the "Blimey" school. Mr. Wolf savagely attacks Galsworthy for his attitude toward the war; it is hard for one who has not read the offending utterances to judge how far they warrant such an assault, but Mr. Wolf certainly makes his victim appear futile and irritating. At the end "A. K. MoC." interposes a few mild words in Galsworthy's behalf. "B. D. A." writes a review of Professor Perry...
...prose, Mr. Longyear's "'Goose' Brodie" is a notably successful attempt to carry us back to the days of the African slave trade, with the difficult vehicle of Scotch dialect. The movement of the story is uninterrupted, the episodes clearly drawn, and the dialect at once consistent and unobtrusive. The tale is better than Mr. Plummer's sketch of a cat which became ship's mascot. This unpromising subject is, however, handled in a manner which, if a trifle juvenile, is far from puerile. The way in which cross-eyed Mike "stared in royal disdain, his left eye terrifying...
...congress of English teachers recently assembled in New York found itself discussing whether its members do teach English; whether the language spoken by Americans of the rising generation is merely a dialect, or whether it has attained to the dignity of a distinct "American" tongue. Professor Scott, of the University of Michigan, hails the day when this indigenous language will be officially recognized. It will apparently be composed of our vernacular Esperonto, with a few relics of our Trans-Atlantic heritage as a concession to tradition. Mrs. Smith will extend bids to a dance. Policemen will become cops...
...Tuskegee Jubilee Singers, a quintet of minstrels from Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, will give a performance in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The program, to be rendered, includes old-fashioned plantation melodies, folk songs and dialect readings. The men, who have traveled over the entire country, singing in the interest of their school, are skilled performers and have been accorded enthusiastic receptions every where they have been. The entertainment tonight will be of especial interest to an American audience...