Word: diction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...studious assemblies that have attended the course have been much impressed by Professor Baker's free manner of presenting the great period of English literature, and particularly by his clear and measured diction...
MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "English Influence on German Poetic Diction in the Eighteenth Century." Professor Walz. Common Room, Conant Hall...
MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "English Influence on German Poetic Diction in the Eighteenth Century." Professor Walz. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...tidy social ethics library does not. Mr. Curtis in "Analysis" tries to wheedle the ambitious into English 18. The remaining two articles are a reasonable view of the football outlook by Mr. Watts, and a story. The editors ought of course to be very much more careful of their diction: "long pants" and "America's greatest educator" occur in one column of the editorials...
...bears the signature of Josiah Quincy as President, and, as usual, contains a brief characterization which may be freely translated as follows: "Scholar and true gentleman; skilful portrayer of lands and customs, delighting his readers with the delicacy of his wit or stirring them with the splendor of his diction; who by his many and admirably finished works has won fame for himself and for his country." The diploma is framed, and hangs for the present in the Reading Room of Gore Hall...