Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...deliver the oration at the public meeting in Sanders Theatre. Sir Frederic Pollock is a graduate of Cambridge in England; he is a University Professor at Oxford, editor of the Law Quarterly Review, and also principal editor of the English Law Reports. His earlier work as an author was chiefly in bringing out the principles which underlie the English case law. Of late, in addition, he has devoted himself largely to historical research. It is doubtful if any other contemporary English legal writer is so well known. He was also among the first, and has been one of the most...
...number opens with "Francis Parkman's Autobiography," which was read at a special meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held to commemorate the death of the historian, but which has not before been published. This remarkable autobiography was the result, so the author tells us, of a desire to make known the extreme difficulties, which reduced to small proportions, what might have been a good measure of achievement. After reading the story we are amazed at the actual amount of work the man accomplished under difficulties almost insurmountable, and can only faintly realize what he might have succeeded in doing...
...latter. A well-known critic says that it is extremely improbable that Shakespeare wrote the plays, since not a single scrap of his writing has come down to us. This argument also holds good of Bacon for there is no writing of his to show that he was the author of the plays. If we stick to the argument we shall have Shakespeare, while the critic does not even save his Bacon...
Gustav Freytag, the famous German author, dramatist and journalist died of pneumonia on Tuesday...
...takes place at New Haven this evening. This is the second Yale-Princeton debate arranged, and a decision is to be rendered. Judge Henry Howland of New York city, has accepted the invitation to preside, and the judges are Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott of New York, Lawrence Hutton, the author, and Professor Edward Cummings of Harvard. The question selected is: "Resolved, that, under the circumstances, the passage of the income tax law of 1894 was justifiable." Yale presented the question, giving Princeton the choice of sides. Princeton selected the affirmative. The Yale speakers are Harold E. Buttrick of Brooklyn...