Word: dictional
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...roads," etc. The tale is better than most of its brand, with interesting characters sharply defined in a charming and well realized environment; but the brand is poor. In the short article championing the university ideal for Harvard, Mr. Gregg likewise vitiates his contention by constraint and obscurity of diction...
...verse is notably good. Much of it is imaginative, and some of it has caught a larger diction than is usual in college poetry. Mr. Baker of the Yale Literary Magazine contributes a striking ballade; Mr. Hagedorn a fine monologue of New York street life; Mr. Seeger two sonnets on Don Juan which echo the music of an earlier time; Mr. Miller a moving threnody; Mr. Reed a poem not quite big enough for its language, but showing promise and some metrical skill. Here also is Mr. Pulsifer's Garrison Prize Poem, The Conquest of the Air, which would arrest...
...studious assemblies that have attended the course have been much impressed by Professor Baker's free manner of presenting the great period of English literature, and particularly by his clear and measured diction...
MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "English Influence on German Poetic Diction in the Eighteenth Century." Professor Walz. Common Room, Conant Hall...
MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "English Influence on German Poetic Diction in the Eighteenth Century." Professor Walz. Common Room, Conant Hall...