Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...special celebration in honor of Professor Langdell, who will have completed the twenty-fifth year of his connection with the Law School as Dane Professor and Dean. The celebration will take place in Austin Hall. One of the principal features will be an address by Sir Frederic Pollock, author of "Pollock's Work on Torts" and several other legal books. The address will be followed by a dinner which will probably be served in Lower Massachusetts...
...College House."Pushing to the Front, or Success Under Difficulties," is the title of a new book published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The author, O. S. Marden, has taken for his theme the inevitability of success to any youth who has the grit and pluck to seize his opportunity and fight his way; that if he is really deserving he can neither be buried nor obscured; that the barriers are not yet erected which can say to aspiring talent, "Thus far, and no farther...
...manifested in this work. Yet all the while there are no impossible suggestions or examples given to the reader. There are twenty-four handsome portraits of persons who are immortal in their words and works. These are given as examples of the possible, and under the hand of the author their influence can not help but inspire one and infuse with enthusiasm...
...Paul Du Ghaillu, the famous explorer and author, will deliver a lecture in Sanders Theatre, Thursday evening, January 17, at 8 o'clock, on "The Vikings." The lecture is to be under the auspices of the Harvard Folk Lore Club and will be open to members of the University and their friends...
...last two plays which have been discussed, was, as we have seen, in the appreciation of character and in the reality and truth with which events long since passed and scenes laid in far distant countries were brought before our minds by the mighty pen of the author; in Phedre we meet with events of the times of the ancient Greeks, clothed for most of us as in the mists and glamour of mythology, but here brought into the vivid light of our own times and appealing to us with the force of life itself...