Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Robert Grant, famous as the author of Little-Tin-Gods-on-Wheels, Confessions of a Frivolous Girl, etc., is to have a novelette in the next Century, entitled An Average...
...pension department which he left to come to America. He came to New York in 1857 and for four years was instructor in Fezandie's school in that city. He was appointed instructor at Harvard in 1871 and assistant professor in 1876. He is best known as the author of a series of articles on Harvard in the "Revue de l'enseignement public" which work as a whole is the best account of Harvard and its tendencies. He is supposed to have left notes full enough to allow of the completion of the work. He won the degree...
...comprise a volume on the history of Kentucky, issued in the "American Commonwealth Series," by Prof. N. S. Shaler ; volumes in the "American Men of Letter Series" on Hawthorne, by Prof Lowell, on Emerson, by Dr. Holmes, on Margaret Fuller, by F. W. Higginson, and on Franklin, by McMaster, author of the recently published History of the United States; and in the "American Statesman Series" on Henry Clay, by Carl Schurz and on Patrick Henry, by Prof. Moses Coit Tyler. The edition de luxe of Prof. Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads is also promised soon. "Yankee Doodle...
...earnest protest of the Vassar graduates against the plan pursued in that college bears upon a singular part of our modern educational training. The protest was moderate and strong in both meaning and language, and deserves careful attention from every parent. The author (who had herself won the first place in the graduating class and was therefore entitled to speak) urged that the system of placing "honors" at graduation before the pupil at her entrance into school as the chief object of her endeavors "induced a nervous strain incompatible with her highest physical or mental development. The system...
...remains of John Howard Payne, the author of "Home, Sweet Home," after thirty years' burial in Tunis, were finally interred in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, on Saturday, with appropriate ceremonies...