Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...promoter of a bill to provide for federal control of federal elections. He is an enthusiastic supporter of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt in his Civil Service Reforms and also strongly favors the restriction of undesirable immigration to our shores. In a literary way, Mr. Lodge is well known as the author of "A Short History of the English Colonies in America" as well as of biographies of Daniel Webster, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, and many other books...
...again in 1880, Dr. Porter supervised the revision of Webster's Dictionary. He was the author of the celebrated book on "The Human Intellect," published in 1868 which has become an accepted text-book in many American colleges. He also wrote a large number of metaphysical works...
...exercise in Eng. A. is due on next Friday on circumstantial description of some passage of any English author. The passage on page 284 of the rhetoric has advised...
...other three stories, "The Con- version of the Princess Anna" is the best, There is a light vivacious, touch distinctly appropriate to the bit of History's which the author narrates. While "Old Henry's Treasure," and "One in Forty" do not seem to be particularly strong, yet the former has one or two good touches and the latter shows promise...
...vigorous, strong, and decidedly well worked up, though one cannot help feeling that the allusion to the fact that "people in poor districts are not troubled with sensitive nostrils" is in rather bad taste, and that its omission would have improved the general impression which the story gives. The author of "Dross" shows that he has a good command of language, and the story is distinctly the best of the number...