Word: vernacular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spoken by Americans of the rising generation is merely a dialect, or whether it has attained to the dignity of a distinct "American" tongue. Professor Scott, of the University of Michigan, hails the day when this indigenous language will be officially recognized. It will apparently be composed of our vernacular Esperonto, with a few relics of our Trans-Atlantic heritage as a concession to tradition. Mrs. Smith will extend bids to a dance. Policemen will become cops in the dictionary, even "Lift up your beans, ye mighty gates...
...crew was that it needed a certain balance, a certain shifting about--not necessarily a casting out of the men who rowed as regulars at Ithaca. But Mr. Nickalls gained his own conclusions from what he saw at Ithaca, and has acted upon them. He, to fall into the vernacular, is the doctor. Yale's failures at Philadelphia and at Ithaca have been explained in a number of ways. Theories relating to varying density of the water and consequent deviations in the buoyancy of the Yale shell have been advanced by Yale men, and there has been talk of shells...
...Harvard presented for consideration a great football eleven, a team which was perfect to the last detail. To borrow from the baseball vernacular, she had everything--rushing, forward-passing, good tackling, keen following of the ball, ability to hold the pigskin, mechanical precision, general football sense, and excellent punting. Haughton says it is the best Harvard eleven he ever coached. It resembled the Harvard team that met Cornell about as much as Yale resembled Harvard on Saturday, which is to say there was no resemblance. So far as Harvard was concerned, the Cornell game to her was what the Yale...
...means lacking in musical sense; the story-writers are fluent and entertaining; the editorials, deploring Harvard architecture and commending smokers, glass flowers and the Scholarship Service Bureau, are admirably expressed and sound beyond cavil. But barring that final sonnet, none of it, to drop into the vernacular, "proves anything." To Mr. E. C. MacVeagh '18 we owe our thanks for demonstrating that it is not impossible for an undergraduate to write good verse and still to remain aware of the big things that are happening in the world he lives...