Word: authority
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Professor Bury's works on "The Development of the Roman Empire in the East," his histories of the "Roman Empire from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius," and of "Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great" have won the highest praise as clear and comprehensive accounts, especially because of the author's absolute fairness and freedom from bias...
Another amusing drawing is that of the Freshman beer night. But the best thing in the number is the drawing and the jest "Handicapped." This is the sort of thing that appears once in a long while; the modest author does not sign his sketch, but he is to be congratulated...
Professor Bury is the author of a "History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene," a "Student's History of the Roman Empire from Augusts to Marcus Aurelius," a "History of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great," "The Life of St. Patrick and his Place in History," and also of numberous articles in various periodicals. He is also the editor of "The Nemean and Isthmian Odes of Pindar," of "Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," "Freeman's History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy," "Freshman's Historical Geography of Europe...
...National Municipal League has established an annual prize, called the "William H. Baldwin Prize," to be given to the author of the best essay on a subject connected with municipal government. For the year 1907-98 the competition will be limited to undergraduate students registered in a regular course in any college or university in the United States offering distinct instruction in municipal government, and the essays will be limited to 10,000 words in length. The prize will be awarded by three judges selected by the executive committee of the League, and the name of the winner will...
...Ford's "Oxford: an Opinion" is so modest in its claims to authority that it almost forestalls criticism. Yet the author shows that during the single term her spent in the English university, he kept his eyes open and his mind at work. A longer experience and deeper meditation might have led him to change his mind on some things, as, for example, that it is not difficult to get the English point of view, or that "refinement, because it is the most difficult part of education to attain, should therefore come last." Some things, on the other hand...