Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...aware of the existence of a book called "Childe Harvard: A Romance of Cambridge." It was published by one of the members of the graduating class of 1848 under the pseudonym of Senior Algerno. The real name is not known, and inquiry gives no information about either author or publisher. "Childe Harvard" is a narrative in verse, and is a travesty on Byron's "Childe Harold." The poem consists of four cantos and covers about 150 duodecimo pages. It is written in a humorons strain, interspersed with some sentimentality, and contains many bits of bright verse. The story itself...
...recent author's readings at Chickering Hall, New York, netted $4,000 for the "Copyright League...
...excused at a time when there is little going on to deserve a paragraph, but if the truths contained in these few editorials are taken to heart by the students, they may bear some fruit. The number opens with a short poem of four stanzas in which the author attempts to tell in verse a romantic incident which ends unhappily...
WILLIAM C. LAWTON, '73, author of several recent articles in the Atlantic Monthly upon Greek dramas and kindred subjects, will give six readings from Euripides, Wednesday afternoons at 3, in the Hawthorne Rooms, Park street, Boston, beginning Jan. 18. The readings will include an original metrical rendering of three entire plays-the Alkestis, Medeia and Hippolytos, with running comment and explanation. The first reading will be opened with a brief account of the history and character of Greek tragedy. A few of the best seats for the course may be found at Amee...
...series of bright, clever sketches of plays, actors and authors form the basis of an interesting review of the theatrical year as published in "The Playgoers' Year-Book," just issued. The stage in Boston is described, but as all the leading attractions come to that city, and as the history of each play is given, the book is practically a review of the American stage. The author, Mr. Charles E. L. Wingate (H. U. '83), is the dramatic editor of the Boston Daily Journal, and his treatment of the subject has been marked by soundness and brightness. He gives...