Word: authority
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...this capacity he abolished slavery and the slave trade in the islands under his charge, and in a skirmish with the natives was severely wounded. On returning from the Philippines in 1907, he was appointed superintendent of the United States Military Academy with the rank of colonel. As an author Colonel Scott has been enabled from his intimate knowledge of the American Indians and their ways to write several monographs and reports which have proved of great value to the government...
...Legion of Honor. He has also received a number of Prussian orders, in recognition of his efforts to advance our knowledge of the atmosphere. He has taken part in many scientific expeditions in all parts of the world, and is also will known as an editor, and author of scientific articles...
...question of the formation of the Old French epics, and has published thus far two volumes on the Legendes Epiques. These lectures should interest students of mediaeval literature and of the relations between different classes of society, especially those between monks and minstrels. They are based on the author's own investigations, and are not popular lectures for the general public. They will be open to members of the University and Radcliffe College and others interested in the subject. The times and the place will be announced later...
...Ballad of Harvard Square. His verse suggests Kipling, who has, above all writers of our time, caught the fancy of young poets and story-tellers. A story by Mr. Van Rensselaer, The Corward, also has a suggestion of Kipling, but more in the story than the style. The author could well try rewriting The Coward many times; at the end it should be very effective. Corners in York, by Mr. Huckel, describes a ramble in the old English city under the guidance of an eccentric local character. It is well told. It takes some lines, however, for the reader...
John Henry Wigmore, delegate from Northwestern University; author of a monumental treatise on the Law of Evidence, a jurist in a day when lawyers are many and jurists rare...