Word: author
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Tomorrow evening Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, the well-known author and artist, will give "A Rambling Talk" in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock. Mr. Smith is noted for his versatility; for besides being an author and artist of considerable merit, he has been engaged in engineering and contracting for about twenty years, and has built the Race Rock lighthouse on Long Island Sound and the Block Island breakwater...
...Perry deals more generally with his attitude in philosophy and shows how "pragmatism" has been with him a matter both of temperament and of deliberate theory; and Professor Neilson, bringing a hearty tribute from another department of the Faculty, writes with discrimination of Professor James as a lecturer and author. The articles all have more to say of Professor James's personality than of his contributions to learning, and taken together they give, from different points of view, a very consistent account of a character that has deeply influenced recent generations of Harvard men. A sonnet, taken from "The Critic...
...Riis, the writer of this article, is a well-known journalist and author, the instigator of many reforms in New York in tenement house and school administrations, and an ardent supporter of movements for securing small parks and playgrounds. Among his books are "The Making of an American," "How the Other Half Lives," "The Children of the Poor," "The Battle of the Slum," "Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen...
...Riis who has written the article to be published tomorrow is known as journalist and author. He was born in Denmark in 1849, and came to this country while still a boy. He was well known for years as police reporter of the New York Sun, and he has always been most active in the small parks and play grounds movement, and in securing reforms in tenement house and school administrations. Among his books are, "How the Other Half Lives," "The Children of the Poor," "Nibsy's Christmas," "Out of Mulberry Street," "The Battle with the Slum," "Theodore Roosevelt...
...suggestion of the visions that are sometimes granted to our prosaic souls and that are the life of poets. The essay is very delicate, often subtle, and withal simple. "Chesterton and the Philosophy of Paradox," by L. Simonson '09, is very thoughtful but not thoroughly worked out. The author has not given Chesterton, the whole man. He recognizes the value, critical and philosophical, of many of Chesterton's paradoxes, but is inclined impulsively to give equal importance to all, including those which are mere exercises in verbal ingenuity. We read Chesterton with delight because of his manliness, because...