Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Choate '52, late ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James, will read a paper on Dana as a citizen, a lawyer, and a writer on the subject of international law. Professor Bliss Perry will speak of Dana as a man of letters and as the author of "Two Years Before the Mast," and the Honorable Moorfield Storey '66 will talk on what Dana did in connection with the antislavery movement. The meeting has been arranged by a special committee which has secured men who knew Richard Henry Dana personally to speak, and which has made every...
...best essay or article demonstrating the necessity and wisdom of reasonable preparedness against war by the United States. This competition is open to anyone. The manuscript, not to exceed 5000 words must be signed by a nom de plume and accompanied by a letter containing the author's real name. The competition closes on November 1, the decision, resting with five persons of national prominence, to be announced on Thanksgiving Day. The article will be judged by its value in awakening popular appreciation of our national peril and necessities as well as its literary merit...
...Passos presents us with two stories, a slam at the proverbial American abroad, not at all pleasant, and the history of a school boy's study hour. The latter pleases better, partly because it contains more of the author's delightful description, partly because of the ephemeral subject, which suits...
Under this title an article in the current number of the "Atlantic Monthly" voices a strong protest against the elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there...
...dramatic story of the adventures of two bad boys and a clever dog, the latter being in the New York Heralds estimation, the leading "man", who "played" with finesse and "tact". "Young America" was written round the juvenile court idea, and with this institution as a background; the author has treated the life of the youthful offenders with such understanding sympathy that he brought forth many such comments as that of the New York press: "Memory fails to bring to mind a more human and affecting bit of playwriting than this modest and unassuming little piece...