Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work as an organist of international reputation, he has devoted his services to the popularization of good music in the University at large. This work he has accomplished in an eminently practical and effective manner. His method has been that of the organizer, and in the popular idiom, he has "brought home the bacon...
...article contains sound distinctions and acute observations, but it is marred by some pretentiousness in tone and certain defects of style. These last are such as perennially affect the cleverer kinds of undergraduate criticism--the use of a vocabulary sometimes merely precious, sometimes employed with an imperfect sense of idiom. But such annoyances are perhaps only inevitable growing pains, and they do not cancel one's satisfaction in such evidences of intellectual activity as Mr. Seldes's eassy undoubtedly presents. The only piece of verse in the number, Mr. Greene's "The Heritage," is flat and prosaic...
...these pieces, once "The Pierian" was clear of the nervousness that broke "The Saracens" into fragments, the orchestra played as it has never played before. Mr. Clapp's tone-poem is written exactingly in the ultra-modern German idiom. Rimsky-Korsakoff's symphony is not exactly music for amateurs. Yet the amateurs of the society played both pieces with the accuracy that was borne of ease with their music, and full understanding of it, with hardly a technical blunder or slip, with none that was so obvious as to vex and distract its hearers. Never before has "The Pierian...
Long and short themes are required as in English A, and there are in addition exercises in speaking and reading, with the purpose of correcting errors in idiom and pronunciation. Each student is allowed an unusual amount of conference time...