Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...short stanza, "The Coming of the Fog" is followed by "An After Dinner Story" written in an easy style which does credit to the author. The Monthly ends with two editorials and book notices...
Prof. Edward Oakley, LL. D., the eminent mathematician, was found dead in his bed Sunday morning from heart disease. He was the author of numerous and generally used works on mathematics. For the last thirty years he has been professor of mathematics in the University of Michigan...
...Wanderings of Alexis" is continued in the author's well-known style, and this chapter contains an exceedingly interesting account of the secret workings of a socialist's club. "A Greek funeral" forms the title of an unusually good sophomore theme. The writer describes what he himself has seen, and describes it intelligently and well. "A Strange Idea," is indeed passing strange, yet withal, interesting from its very uniqueness, though the opening paragraphs give one the idea that the author is about to describe a tobogganing party on Christmas...
...these statements, (the italics are my own) were written by some one not a member of the college, the editors of the Herald are perhaps alone responsible, and the article may have been written under a misapprehension of the facts, but if the author is at present in college, (and there is internal evidence that this so,) then he should be discovered, and branded with the contempt that he deserves. Who is this person that pretends to know the needs and means of the first twenty-five scholars in the present senior class and can pick out eight of these...
Under the title of "Mr. Hamerton on Literature in a Republic," Mr. Higginson expresses the opinion that an author is far superior to an English duke or an American millionaire. It is with interest that we read this essay, and it is with deep-felt grief that we turn from it to the poem entitled "From Platen." In the last Monthly Mr. Berenson gave us a specimen of poetry which was hardly creditable to his literary ability. This time he offers us a short piece which does credit neither to his power of versification, nor to his judgment in selecting...