Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Various Reports to be Read...
Professor George H. Palmer '64 will read the story of Christ's birth from the Scriptures, and a selection from Milton's "Ode on Nativity." Miss Margaretta Josephine Penick, of the Emerson College of Oratory, will give "An Evening of Dialect." In this entertainment, Miss Penick will give her admirable interpretation of German, Italian, Scotch, negro, Irish, Hoosier and child dialects. E. I. Dale 2G, who makes a specialty of Western folklore, will give a sketch of cowboy and Indian life on the frontier. Speaking from his own wide experience in the Western States, he will make his part...
...thing in the number, and the good things show a really surprising command of language. Yet there is nothing very notable in the collection, one receives the same impression that one so often gets from Harvard papers: here are a lot of clever young men who have read a good deal and know how to 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...
...number, the authors become increasingly conscious of the war. Mr. Simpson contributes a lively and amusing, though rather extravagant story in British nautical dialect of the "Blimey" school. Mr. Wolf savagely attacks Galsworthy for his attitude toward the war; it is hard for one who has not read the offending utterances to judge how far they warrant such an assault, but Mr. Wolf certainly makes his victim appear futile and irritating. At the end "A. K. MoC." interposes a few mild words in Galsworthy's behalf. "B. D. A." writes a review of Professor Perry's recent essays which...
...convention will open with the executive session on Thursday afternoon, December 28, from 2.30 to 5.30 o'clock at Miss Stoke's Studio, 90 Grove street. The meeting will be called to order by J. G. Phelps Stokes, president. The reports of delegates and the organizing secretary will be read, and a discussion of chapter problems, methods of organizing and procedure of study chapters will follow...