Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...constructing the modern tragedy, said Professor Smyth, the author explains both cause and effect, while the ancient poet, taking it for granted that the audience understands the antecedent causes of the characters he enstages, depicts only the tragedy. The ancient author can, therefore, move with greater deliberation in evolving the catastrophe, and can find scope for lyric reflection on the relation between divine law and its infringement by the hero whose overthrow he is constructing...
...lectures today and next Wednesday, Mr. Copeland will discuss Defoe as the author not only of "Robinson Crusoe", but of "The Journal of the Plague", "Moll Flanders", and other less known works. The discussion will involve brief comparison of Defoe with other masters of illusion in prose fiction...
...will give an illustrated lecture on "Hunting Game Birds with a Camera" under the auspices of the Natural History Society at 8 o'clock this evening, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum. Mr. Job is well known for his excellent photographs of birds, and is the author of "Among the Waterfowl", "Wildwings", and several other books...
...Jones '06, as Young Chartley, a wild-headed gentleman, around whom the play centres, made the most of an adventurer's part. H. Kempner '07, as Boyster, was blunt enough to convince the audience that he had properly acted the part as conceived by the author. Taber, sir Harry's man acted by W. J. McCormick '08, was a most difficult part, and although a trifle overdone, it was highly amusing. H. M. Holmes '06, as Sir Boniface, and E. R. Brumley '07, as Sencer, conceived their parts well. Of the feminine characters, C. B. Wetherell '08 as the Wise...
Professor Peirce was a Fellow of the American Academy and was well known as an author of books on mathematical subjects, among which the following are the most important: "Text Book of Analytic Geometry,"Three and Four Place Tables," "Elements of Logarithms," "Mathematical Tables Chiefly to Four Figures...