Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American people. Tracts like this will be read by many who would not open a bulky volume of the same title, and they will find that what they regarded as the most confused and perplexing of subjects is not only comprehensible but also interesting. The style of the author is temperate throughout, and, indeed, he seems disposed rather to understate than to exaggerate his case...
...They are Protean in their natures," my guide replied. "They can assume any form, counterfeit any emotion, mock any expressions of feeling. Thus it is that they deceptively adapt themselves to the world, and their duplicity is never discovered. Too many there are that are like this author, but they are growing less and less in number. Silently the celestial policemen, among whom I am one, are carrying them to their reward. They are called the Lotos-Eaters of Earth.- But the East is brightening; the day is near. I must be away...
...find nothing in my letter to authorize the interpretation that I thought your first editorial on this subject was intended to lessen the subscriptions to the crew. I have no doubt whatever that the article in question was written in perfectly good faith, and nothing was further from my thoughts, in replying to it, than impugning, in the least, the motives of its author. I only intended to point out the bad effects which such an article might have, and to counteract that effect so far as I was able...
...Woodrow Wilson, the author of "Congressional Government" which has excited so much attention, is a graduate of Princeton, Class '79, and has just accepted the position of Professor of History in Bryn Mawr College for women...
...imitation of the custom, almost universal in France, of celebrating the birthday of Victor Hugo, a lecture was given in Sever, yesterday, commemorative of the great author, to which the students of the advanced French courses were invited. The lecturer, Mr. Cohn, will finish his remarks on Saturday...