Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...latter suggestions apply more to the care of numbers of books together. In that connection it has been said that "you should never attempt to classify books on your shelves by the colors of the bindings, or by the sizes of the books themselves. Put the works of an author together, so far as possible, however incongruous their sizes may be. And try to keep books on the same and kindred subjects as close together as may be convenient...
...passed by will in 1878 to William Everett, (Harvard College, 1859). It is by him presented to the president and fellows, in pursuance of an intention expressed in a letter of Edward Everett to Samuel Rogers. Mr. Rogers lived from 1763 to 1855, and first appeared as an author in the same year with Burns, namely, 1786. His poetry was of the unimpassioned, meditative character. Chambers says that "it was man of taste and letters, as a patron of artists and authors, and as the friend of almost every illustrious man that has graced our annals for the last half...
...recent review of C. F Thwing's book on "American colleges" says: In his chapters on Morals and Religion the author draws conclusions very unfavorable to city colleges compared with those located in country towns. He thinks that the proximity of drinking-shops and disreputable houses, as well as the fact that city colleges draw their students mainly from residents of cities, who are familiar with vice, tends to lower the moral tone of the students; and he adduces many facts in proof of his position. There is undoubtedly much truth in this view. Large colleges certainly have a large...
...generally known that the now famous author of "Mr. Isaacs", F. Marion Crawford, was formerly a student at Harvard. Mr. Crawford's boyhood was spent in India, though he was born in Italy. Mr. Crawford spent some time in Boston, and enrolled himself a student at Harvard, receiving a diploma in Sanskrit, under Prof. Lanman...
...Liberal," says the London Times, "or for the Minister of the United States at St. James', that the St. Andrew's student voted; it was for the author of the 'Biglow Papers' and 'Under the Willows' and 'Among My Books.' Their candidate was the friend of Hawthorne, the successor to Long fellow's chair at Harvard; one of the leaders in the society which has invested Cambridge, in Massachusetts, with something of the halo of Weimar; the expert in English Literature who has redeemed the name of Fielding from unmerited reproaches...