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...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 of the program interesting...
...notably successful attempt to carry us back to the days of the African slave trade, with the difficult vehicle of Scotch dialect. The movement of the story is uninterrupted, the episodes clearly drawn, and the dialect at once consistent and unobtrusive. The tale is better than Mr. Plummer's sketch of a cat which became ship's mascot. This unpromising subject is, however, handled in a manner which, if a trifle juvenile, is far from puerile. The way in which cross-eyed Mike "stared in royal disdain, his left eye terrifying the cats on his right and his right...
...mind must have been concerned with the great currents of civilization and the problems affecting the individual and corporate life of the peoples, while his colleagues have been devoting themselves to the splendid advance of the Institute's technical training. His course for the Commission on Extension will sketch the growth of European nations since the French Revolution, tracing not only the conflicts of the nations themselves but also of the varying doctrines of nationalism which they have maintained. No more timely or importantly related discussion could be proposed at this hour. --Boston Transcript...
...play was read last night in Phillips Brooks House by P. F. Reniers '16, before a large audience. It is a four-act play dealing with politics and purity, and fairly bristling with dramatic atmosphere. A brief sketch of the plot follows...
...have but the slightest sketch of the operations of these Harvard delvers on the margin of the Nubian desert. The world will await with interest their fuller and more authoritative story. But we know that at least they have won an archaeological victory, even if they have won it at the hands of the god of chance. They were at least earnestly "on the job" to take advantage of any gifts that that god might bring them. Boston Transcript...