Word: verbalizer
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This criticism applies to Mr. Fay's story of "The Penitent Highwayman," to "The Festive Season," which could appear with slight verbal changes in the Christmas number of any college paper year after year, and especially to "A Late Spring," a story in which Mr. Cuthbert Wright subtly analyzes the emotional crisis of a young man who takes himself very, very seriously, and falls in love at first sight with a girl who is already engaged. He lives in the Bronx, or Kensington, or Evansville--one cannot tell; he has been to school in England or America, and to Harvard...
...Commanding Officer, Harvard Regiment, at 1.30 o'clock, assembles his battalion commanders and staff, and issues the following verbal orders...
...shall be optional subsequently so long as the student is on probation. The passage set for the examination shall be of the same grade of difficulty as the oral, but different from it in consisting of an extensive, well-rounded chapter or episode, which need not be translated with verbal accuracy, but only paraphrased and rendered into equivalent English sense...
...past year has grown in many ways, and that the device carved on one of its gates, "Enter to Grow in Wisdom" is not an idle one, for increased opportunities for such growth are always being added. But President Lowell does not make his report merely a series of verbal boquets. He points out several matters which stand in need of change and improvement...
...Macdonough's article on Emerson, itself a creditable piece of work, seem commonplace. But it hardly needs a foil to set off the astounding performance on Mr. Mackaye's "Uriel" which closes the number. One not infrequently finds in undergraduate publications evidence of a kind of verbal intoxication, the result of some youth's finding a fount of critical terms, and drinking too much before he knew how strong it was--with unseemly results. A. W. W.'s performance is by far the worst instance of this I have ever seen. Never before, I believe, have two pages...