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...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...
...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...