Word: dialects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Modern Language Association will hold its twenty-first annual meeting at Ann Arbor, Michigan, on December 28, 29 and 30, and the American Dialect Society will also meet in Ann Arbor at the same time. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 will represent Harvard at these meetings...
...Whidden is very effective as Punjab, and J. C. Miller, as Sthu Pid, the rival for the possession of the kingdom, imitates excellently the Chinese dialect, although he fails to speak loud enough at times. I. T. Cutter, as the Rajah of Mandalay, does what is perhaps the most laughable work in the performance. The best handling of a part, however, is that of R. Wellman '03, who impersonates John Class, the antiquarian. The part is the most difficult in the play and it is rendered with a cleverness which is enhanced by a distinct enunciation. If one especial fault...
...dialect, there are two and a half pages of it, verse at that, entitled "Old Nell," and signed Simon Smaull; but it is good dialect, and good, easy-rhyming verse and so makes about the best feature of the paper. The quaint humor which runs through the lines never seems to have been consciously sought after, and so becomes the more effective. Of the other verses, "A Song," by R. P. arrests one's attention with the swing of its lines. The thought, simply enough expressed, is more serious than most Advocate verse, but luckily was not entombed...
...Edward Townsend, author of "Chimmie Fadden," "A Daughter of the Tenements," "The Sergeant," etc., will read a number of selections from his own works. Mr. Townsend is a prominent journalist, author and playwright of New York City, and is especially well known for his studies of Bowery life and dialect. He will read the following selections...
...will hold its twentieth annual meeting at Baltimore on December 29, 30, and 31. Of the Faculty, Professor Grandgent, president of the Association. Professors Sheldon, Kittredge, Ford, and von Jagemann will be present, and Professor Sheldon and C. F. Brown 3G., will read papers. Also at Baltimore, the American Dialect Society will hold a business meeting on December 30. All the above members of the Faculty are members of the Society, and will be present...