Word: epigrams
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...write; they are civilized, intelligent, sensitive, literary--but they haven't very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail to express anything vital or even individual. They write pretty fair verse in a good many different forms. Sonnets predominate, but there are specimens of ballade, epigram, stanzas, irregular rhyme and blank verse. There is the usual meteorological trend--snow, wind, waves, sunset and allied phenomena--but on the whole the range is reasonably wide and most of the authors are trying honestly enough to express what they themselves have felt and seen. There is no conscious imitation...
...praise is given for Professor Palmer's share in the growth and development of the Department of Philosophy, but special emphasis is laid on his "power of the single word, of the patiently adjusted expression, of the gemlike sentence or paragraph." In like spirit of appreciation is the Greek epigram by E. K. Rand '94, in honor of Professor Palmer, given also in English verse by the versatile author. It was a happy thought to write in Greek of one who has been so true an expositor of the Greek spirit as has Professor Palmer...
...effectiveness of the Book of Proverbs and the eloquence of the parables of Christ. The more homely the illustration, the better it is. The more pointedly a thing is expressed, the more easily it is grasped. The great man is the man who can fix in an epigram the dominant idea of his day. Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt have done this. When Colonel Roosevelt said in his Paris speech, "Whenever human rights and property rights conflict, human rights must take the lead," he was expressing the dominant thought of democratic government today. And that, says Mr. Bryan, was Colonel Roosevelt...