Word: authority
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Daily Truth--A Vision," Mr. von Kaltenborn pictures a great newspaper run and operated by the University, partly as an example of what a great university ought to be, and partly as a great school of practical journalism. It is a well-written plea for what the author is pleased to call a new movement in education. There is undoubtedly a movement toward making all instruction objective and practical. Mr. von Kaltenborn's plan looks in that direction. There is also a movement toward restricting a school or a college to those parts of any subject which a school...
...Odgen is the author of a booklet on "Pew Rents and the New Testament," and a pamphlet on "Sunday School Teaching." He has also written numerous articles for magazines on educational and religious matters...
...Tower is the author of "The Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution." He is a member of a number of learned societies, and holds the degree of LL.D. from Lafayette College, the University of Chicago, and the University of Glasgow...
Poems submitted in competition for the prize should not exceed 50 lines in length, should be signed with an assumed name, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the real name of the author and superscribed with the assumed name. Competition for the prize is open only to undergraduates in the University. Manuscripts offered in competition should be left at University 20, with the Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, before April...
...Abbott was born in Roxbury in 1835 and was educated at New York University. After practicing law for three years, he entered the ministry, and since 1860 has been engaged in ministerial, literary and editorial work. He is editor-in-chief of the Outlook and is the author of many well-known publications...