Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report that Mr. W. C. Kitchin, author of "The Fall of the Christians," which will appear as a serlal in the New York Ledger during the coming year, is a professor in Harvard was not authorized by Mr. Kitchin, but grew out of a misunderstanding. Mr. Kitchin, formerly professor of English in the Tokyo Anglo-Japanese college, is now a graduate student in Harvard. The editors of the Ledger have been notified and will correct the statement they made that Mr. Kitchen was an instructor here...
...court epics are of a different nature, being similar to the short English verse of seven or eight feet. Of this class the principal writers are Hartmann, Gottfried von Strasbourg and Wolfram Eschenbach. Hartmann, the author of "Erick," a poem of several thousand lines, was a writer of great poetic genius, as was Got fried, who, although unable to read or write, has left a poem of 1900 lines. But after the death of these three men there was a great decline in literature...
...greatest intrinsic value of any recent contribution, it seems out of place in a magazine professing to publish "the best literary work that is produced by students of the university." The regular graduate article, written by Mr. Francis C. Lowell, compares "Harvard and the Continental Universities." The author shows that while the German universities invite students to learn, but do not concern themselves farther, Harvard has very different functions. Harvard undertakes "the advancement of learning and sound morals alike." She has therefore "the full right to make and enforce such regulations as she believes profitable to good morals among...
...November issue of the Atlantic Monthly contains a number of articles which must prove very interesting to the American. The first article, entitled "Character of Democracy in the United States," is perhaps the best one in this number. Its author, Mr. Woodrow Wilson, brings out the four following points, viz: that the general forces of democracy have been undermining all old forms of government; that these forces had nothing to do with the creation of our government; that they nevertheless had some effect upon us as part of the general influences of the age; and that the problems of organization...
...Sargent has prepared a new and more complete Handbook of Developing Exercise to be used in connection with his system of physical examinations and charts. The first part of the book contains a number of hygienic rules based on the author's long experience. General directions are given in regard to exercise, diet, sleep, air, bathing, clothing, and the use of chestweights, which will be useful to everyone. Under each heading are given in addition special directions to be prescribed according to the characteristics of the individual. Four courses on the chestweights are described, comprising sixty-seven exercises, under each...