Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Those members of English A will be relieved of one-third of the work at the final examinations who write a criticism of at least five pages on the style of some particular author, the essay to be finished on or before the fifteenth...
...George Riddle will again attempt the stage, this time in a comedy written by A. C. Gunther, author of "Mr. Barnes of New York...
...Authors' Reading which many people have been looking forward to with so much pleasure took place at Sanders Theatre last evening before a large attendance. Colonel Higginson made a few introductory remarks, in the course of which he said: "It was the custom in Ben Jonson's days, upon the death of a writer, for his brethren of the profession to throw their pens into the grave. And to-night we, the friends of him, the anniversary of whose birthday we commemorate, lay down a few selections of our literary labors to his memory." At the conclusion of his speech...
...Jewett will read this evening the translation of selected portions of the "Assembles" of All Hariri, a celebrated Arabic scholar and poet who flourished at about the time of the first crusade. The "Assemblies" are among the most celebrated productions of Arabic literature, and have spread the author's all fame over the vast extent of territory where the Arabic language has been and is studied. They are looked upon by nations and scholars as models, and have been studied and commented on for hundreds of years. Mirroring as they do the spirit of their author's age. and having...
...number opens with a short poem, the verse of which is much better than the subject. The first prose article, 'The Man Without a Name," is a highly interesting piece of writing, and the author does not hesitate to embody in the plot some startling details. The story threatens to border on the sensational, but its sudden and unexpected ending forbids such doubtful promise...