Word: workmanship
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...second course will be eight lectures by Charles H. Grandgent, L.H.D., Professor of Romance Languages in Harvard University, on "The Power of Dante." 1. Faith. 2. Morality. 3. Temperament. 4. Experience. 5. Vision. 6. Conception. 7. Workmanship. 8. Diction. These lectures will be given on Mondays and Thursdays at five o'clock in the after- noon, beginning Monday, November...
...Auslander's "Forsaken" is pretty, but not quite so pretty as it should be, Mr. Simpson's Imitation of the Rubaiyat" is creditable but not valuable. Mr. Allinson contributes two poems, "Die Gotterdammerrung" and a sonnet. The first is chiefly in unrhymed pentameters, with nine-syllabled verses interspersed. Its workmanship is imperfect, and its lines tend to monotony; yet it is impressive in its dignity. His sonnet "Umbra Naturae" again shows either carelessness or radical doctrine as to versification: it begins with a nine-syllables verse (unless we give two syllables to "here"), and ends with what looks like...
...either case it is not sonorous enough to be self-justifying. Like most undergraduate writers of sonnets, and many older writers, Mr. Allinson is still more or less at the mercy of his form, as the words "all the world is fay" too plainly reveal: unsatisfactory workmanship clogs much of whatever poetic thought the sonnet contains. Mr. Code's sonnet is specific and lively; but it contains a nine-syllabled verse, and an Alexandrine. The latter can scarcely be intentional, since it is not the final verse. The sonnet form is so exacting that it is seriously damaged by stray...
...first building, Nassau Hall, was laid, and the building completed in 1757. It was 170 feet long and 54 feet wide, and had, as now, three stories and a cupola. Twice since its erection the interior of the building has been destroyed by fire but the honest workmanship of its first builders has enabled it to survive both catastrophes. The college was removed to Princeton in the autumn of 1756 and opened there with 70 students...
...incoherence which runs through the piece that even a prejudiced audience is not able to overlook. Had the work been done by novices, we might be more charitable in passing judgment, but such veterans as Victor Leon and Rida Johnson Young will certainly not enhance their reputation by such workmanship as this...