Word: authority
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cercle Francais has arranged for Professor de Sumichrast to deliver a lecture on "Le Pedant Joue," supplemented by a life of Cyrano de Bergerac, the author of the play. The lecture is open to the public and will be held on Tuesday, December, 12 at 4.30, in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum...
...Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, for "The Gipsies"; in 1839, John Ruskin for his "Salsette and Elephanta"; in 1843, Matthew Arnold wrote the prize poem, "Cromwell"; in 1852, Edwin Arnold, "The Feast of Belshazzar." At a later date, in 1860, J. A. Symonds, author of the "Renaissance in Italy," won the prize for "The Escorial...
...remaining articles the most striking and considerable is entitled "The English Drama, 1889-1899." The author, J. P. White '00, shows the wide and detailed acquaintance with the drama of the day necessary for the treatment of such a subject, and is clear and interesting...
Count Riant was a thorough scholar, who had devoted his life to the study of the Crusades and all historical questions connected with them. As the founder of the "Societe de l' Orient Latin," as a prolific author, and as a keen learned expert in the study of manuscript, he has done more than any other modern writer to advance our knowledge in this field. At his chateau in the Valadis where he passed his summers, he had gathered a great library of books relating to the subject of his studies, and it is the portion of this collection relating...
...current number of the Saturday Evening Post, Mr. Charles Macomb Flandrau '95 contributes a story of Harvard entitled "Prince Protococoff and the Press Club." Although the plot is fantastical the author has worked it up with enough probability to be very amusing. The tale is preceded by a slight introduction which brings the reader into the spirit of Harvard life which the story depicts. Mr. Flandrau has admirably pictured the careless, fun-loving type of Harvard student...