Word: wording
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contains a good idea, marred at times by a somewhat perfunctory technique. The "Phantasy," by Mr. Willcox, though abounding in color and imagination, is breathless in its movement; it reminds one of the "patter" of comic opera. Mr. Rogers is dreadfully sophisticated. But perhaps "Retrospect" is not his last word on life. "A Thought" represents him in a less heartless mood. Mr. Parson expresses in a meditative sonnet his awareness of the power...
...Senior Album Committee yesterday gave its final word of warning to the remaining 22 members, or former members, of the class of 1916 living outside Cambridge, and the 38 delinquents living at College, who have not yet had their pictures taken for use in the Senior Album. The only means by which photographs of the men whose names are in the first-named class can be secured, it is believed, is through the co-operation of friends. The men named in the latter group are among those who for weeks have hindered the work of the committee, in compiling...
...Word has been received that the three Harvard men on board the "Sussex," the British steamship torpedoed in the British Channel last Friday afternoon, have all landed safely, although one is still in serious condition...
Among the Bibles which contain amusing mistakes in printing is one where in the sixth chapter of the Gospel of St. John the word Judas is substituted for Jesus. This book is very valuable. The exhibition will be open to the public...
...first one is righteously indignant with the Boston American's attack on President Lowell, but its grammar is defective, and it fails to accomplish its object, for like the paper mentioned it "does not argue, it states." Again, sententia, if the editors really insist on using a Latin word where an English one does better, is a word of the first deciension (sententia, ae, like mensa), and consequently it is not only hard on the President, but a violence to the English and Latin tongues when we read, "the small sententia of a Cambridge paper are superfluous. But the President...