Word: authorities
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...Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, has been selected as Harvard exchange professor in Germany. He will lecture at the University of Berlin in the first half-year. Professor Moore has received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Union Theological Seminary, Marietta, and Western Reserve University. He is the author of several critical editions of the Book of Judges, and has written many articles in Oriental and Biblical journals. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Oriental Society, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft...
...making choice among the different works of a great author the aim will be to take the author's most characteristic work or that one which will be most inteligible to the people of today, or that which has proved to be the most influential...
President Lowell received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Columbia University yesterday at its 155th annual commencement. In bestowing the degree upon President Lowell, President Butler said: "Succeeding amid universal applause to a post of great dignity and responsibility; publicist, author and servant of man's highest interests; president of Harvard University, I admit you to the degree of Doctor of Laws in this University...
...first play, "The Heart of the Irish man," by L. Hatch '05, was suggested to the author by an episode in Charles Lever's novel "Con Cregan." The play is full of rollicking humor, with touches of fine sentiment...
...editorial, which maintains that the present students are required to write too many theses, fails in general to strike home, and almost entirely loses points when the author commits himself to the folly that illiteracy should be corrected only in English...