Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Scrap of Purple Ribbon" has the artistic device, well worked, of exciting the reader's curiosity to a lively pitch, but the incidents are rather ineffective and the result disappointing. The author could have told his story more impressively in half as many words...
...generally known that our library contains some thirty volumes of Goethe's works presented and inscribed by the author. Goethe's interest in Harvard was aroused by his fried Dr. Cogswell, who, with Ticknor, Hedge and Bancroft, was among the first to rouse an interest in German learning in this country...
...With the high respects of the author...
...author of the communication in the CRIMSON Friday morning considers the crew management responsible for the lack of success of the Glee Club concert on Tuesday. The truth of the matter is that the Glee Club have treated the crew very shabbily in not giving the concert before, when more people were in town. The Jamaica Plain and Cambridge concerts, too, drew away from the audience on Tuesday. As to the concert not begin advertised, I happen to know that circulars were sent to all the houses on the Back Bay and notices published in all the daily papers...
...Edmund Gosse's last book, "Robert Browning's Personalia," is put forth, its author says, in answer to constant inquiry for The Century article, which forms the most of its substance. That article was publised in the December number of 1887, and Browning's death naturally renewed public interest in it. To this article, entitled "The Early Career of Robert Browning, 1812-1845," is added a very brief chapter of personal reminiscences and an epilogue. The epilogue is merely some verses from Ronsard, to which Browning was very partial, quoted here with their quaint old spelling preserved...