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...Nicholas Murray Butler, Pres., Columbia Univ...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University: "I set out for England on a lecture tour of the English universities. I have been elected to the Athenasum Club, one of the most select in Great Britain- with a membership confined to statesmen, literary men, philosophers, prelates...
...translators?we are speaking of those who make translation their main occupation, not of such occasional translators as Shelley, say, or Scott?have attained a genuine celebrity upon translation alone. Gilbert Murray, of course, is almost unique among those who are rather transcribers, in a way, than actual, line-for-line translators. Alexander Teixera de Mattos is justly remembered, on the one hand, for his translations of Maeterlinck, on the other for his versions of Arsene Lupin. Louise Garnett's translations of Dostoieffski have brought her deserved and discriminating praise. But, in general, the translator is reduced to the scraps...
...other morning I found Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs) of Buffalo, at the sedate Murray Hill Hotel. An active, agile little woman, she is, who says that she presumes that The Step on the. Stair is her last book; but almost winks when she says it. She is a born storyteller. True, one does not find much of what is ordinarily known as fine writing in her books; but, neither does one find arid stretches. They are yarns built with a genius for amazing effects and drawing out suspense...
Professor John Tucker Murray '99 said in announcing the decision of the judges, that the general level of the orations was much higher than in any previous year...