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Groups for each University will be limited, but will be arranged as far as possible in accordance with the applicants' choice. Each group will be under the direct supervision of a well known Ameri- can Professor of Romance Languages. Courses will be given in Composition, Diction, French Civilization, Grammar, History, Literature and Phonetics, as well as other special courses, and at the end of the six weeks period of study, Certificates of Study will be given...
...matter of contrasts. Miss Alken, the author, has with consummate skill placed opposites side by side. Inherited and acquired refinement meet, and struggle with vulgarity and worse. Carelessness vies with efficiency; temperaments clash. Here and in the beauty of some of the lines (too often marred by imperfect diction) lies the achievement of the playwright...
...appearance, in his diction, in his facial expressions--Bon-Aim first and last, looks, acts, and is the Slav; he seems to have stepped from a play of lsben or a novel of Tolstoi or Checkhov. To appear at his best he needed a play in which the environment would not be unnatural to him; In Samson and Delilah he found such a play, from curtain rise to curtain fall it is imbued with the spirit of the Slav. In its frequent, terribly effective appeals to the stage; in its lack of sentiment and its slow, careful development...
...hard for listeners familiar with the work of amateur male choruses to believe that these singers were not any of them professionals. Their attacks were crisp and accurate, their phrasing correct, their tone beautifully rich and mellow, and their diction readily intelligible without reference to the words printed in the program...
...detail below. The first one will be a series of eight lectures by Professor Lowes on "Convention, Originality and Revolt in Poetry." (1) The Roots of Convention. (2) The Ways of Convention. (3) Originality and the Moulding of Conventions. (4) The Hardening of Conventions, and Revolt. (5) The Diction of Poetry vs. Poetic Diction. (6) Rhyme, Metre and "Vers Libre." (7) The Incursions of Prose and the Vogue of the Fragmentary. (8) The Anglo-Saxon Tradition. These lectures will be given on Mondays and Thursdays at 5 o'clock, beginning Monday, January...