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...English. Very much of the effect of English speech depends upon slurring unemphatic words and dwelling upon those more important. This tends to produce a jerky and irregular utterance not customary in other European languages. In Latin, as well as in all other languages that have quantity, the length of syllables is determined beforehand and even common speech has a measured cadence, a musical quality, to which rhetorical composition carefully attends, so that certain sequences are approved and others not. This difference of effect has until lately been almost entirely disregarded. And even now though many schools teach the proper...
There is another way in which a Latin play is instructive. Ancient poetry was a thing entirely distinct from anything which we call by that name in English. English syllables have essentially no length, though we do have a slight tendency to lengthen the accented syllables. This is the forest primeval, etc., is not dactylic in any real sense, nor is Twinkle, twinkle, little star trochaic. In fact, we could hardly write trochees or dactyls at all in English, certainly not so that one would recognize them as such without being told. Two-syllable feet are Pyrrhics and three-syllabled...
...present period of service which Dr. Leighton Parks gives at morning chapel will be the last by him during this year. Dr. Parks has now been one of the University Preachers for three years, and is, by length of service, the senior member of the Board. We cannot too often acknowledge the great debt owed by the members of the University to these ministers who are willing to disturb their ordinary pastoral duties in order to aid in the religious life here...
...lyceum. At three score one would still be studying; at three score and ten he would still be meditating on what he had read, and ere he was ready with his inaugural discourse, his own headstone would be reading a pithy lecture on the shortness of life and the length of books. So true do we find it that wisdom is that
...Intercollegiate Athletic Association no coaching of competitors will be allowed, and if a competitor in a race for any distance not exceeding three miles shall fall behind a fourth of a mile, or if he shall fall behind a half of a mile in a race of any greater length, he shall be adjudged distanced by the referee and shall be called from the track. Pacing, if attempted, shall disqualify both competitor and pacemaker. All bicycle events and race meets of this association, or of clubs affiliated therewith, shall be held under the League of American Wheelmen sanction. In open...