Word: author
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Ernest Thompson Seton, the well-known author and illustrator of books on wild animals, will lecture on Thursday evening, May 12, in the Fogg Lecture Room, on "Modern Methods and Views in Field Natural History." The lecture will be given under the auspices of the Natural History Society...
...Albany Express. President McKinley appointed him a member of the United States Industrial Commission in 1898, but he resigned the next year to become chief statistician of manufactures for the twelfth census. In 1903 he was appointed director of the United States census bureau. He is the author of "An American Textile Glossary," "A History of the American Wool Manufacture," and of numerous pamphlets on economic and industrial subjects...
...Higginson '41 will speak on his recollections of the Society dinners in his College days, with reminiscences of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and others; and will consider some possible future vocations for present members of the Society, more especially the career of an author or speaker...
...writing means time and work: does the public want it badly enough to pay for it? Mr. Bernbaum, by the way, is depressed over the American public, is past even regretting the incapacity of Americans to appreciate Ibsen, to him "the greatest dramatist since Shakespere, and probably the greatest author of the nineteenth century." Is there perhaps on the Monthly a certain condescension towards natives...
...call it contemporary. H. Hagedorn, Jr., draws indeed from the night-life of Harvard: but one soon scents the moral thesis--a 'horrible example' to the text of the admirable sermon of the editorial: and soon recognizes Pengrove and Farrell for what they must have been to the author's own mind--less prodigals than premisses...