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...University of Chicago Press will presently issue a version of the New Testament translated by Professor Goodspeed from the original Greek into American vernacular...
Nellie Melba, near her 60th year, still gathers laurels as a prima donna of opera. She was the great star of this year's operatic season in England. Her voice is said to be still astonishingly fine. The season was another essay at opera in English. The vernacular, as usual, did not work so well. The two chief artists were Melba, born British, and Edward Johnson, American, and a Metropolitan Opera star. These two sang in French and Italian, while the rest of the casts sang in English. The English critics patriotically let the grotesqueries of opera in the vernacular...
...Marine Worker is an interesting illustration of I. W. W. propaganda in use on the Pacific Coast and elsewhere, and written in the vernacular, is intriguing to the average reader. Its communications are signed " Yours for the next big strike, Del. T. R. 598, Card X58406...
...written in the vernacular, as it should be. Academic jargon is not vernacular; neither is cheap slang. Good ideas are kept out of circulation because they are concealed by highbrow language, whereas lowbrow journalism debauches American speech...
Princeton's plan is easily translated into the Harvard vernacular: individual work under the guidance of preceptors is duplicated in our Tutorial System: the one-course reduction is practiced here at least in the senior year; the general examinations, too, correspond, except that Princeton has two to our one; and the system of "majors and minors" corresponds closely with the familiar "Concentration and Distribution." Even the underlying purpose is the same; there is little indeed to complete the parallel. The innovation on an ultimate panacea. "The day of benevolent despotism fades into the background; from now on the compelling force...