Word: historians
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Eduard Meyer, classical historian, unsurpassed by living man; doubly welcome here, as delegate from the University of Berlin, and as our fellow-teacher and comrade for the coming year...
Otto Gierke, delegate from the University of Berlin; soldier, historian jurist; who as a youth won the iron cross at the stage of Mezieres, and as a man has compelled the admiration of all scholars by his unmatched knowledge of legal and political thought since the Middle Ages...
Henry Morris Stephens delegate from the University of California; brilliant historian in many fields; careless of fame, but spending himself without stint to teach others a love of history...
...literary circles, the recent discovery by William Stone Booth of acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon systematically embodied in the poems the sonnets and all of the plays usually attributed to William Shakespeare, and elsewhere. He foresees that the acceptance of Mr. Booth's discoveries by, the mathematician and historian will lead to the rewriting of the history of English literature of the period shortly before and after 1600, and to the destruction of the modern Shakespeare myth. Let us hope that we are now to have a fair and dispassionate study and presentation of the Shakespeare-Bacon problem...
Signor Guglielmo Ferrero, the distinguished Italian historian, delivered a very interesting and instructive lecture on "Nero" last evening in Emerson Hall...