Word: authority
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...infant College, and his early death. Of his brothers and sisters we know the names, and the dates of their deaths. From these a few other matters may safely be inferred; his Puritanism, for example, his feeble health, his interest in learning. Still other matters are conjectured by the author, such as that it was William Shakespeare who introduced John Harvard's father, his neighbor in Southwark, to the Stratford girl whom he married. These guesses are for the most part put forth with due reserve and supported with ingenuity. The "Life" is, as a whole, a worthy attempt...
...Phillip N. Waggett, of London, author of "Religion and Science," "The Scientific Temper in Religion," etc., will lecture in St. John's Memorial Chapel, corner of Brattle and Mason streets, this afternoon, at 4.30, on "The Church and Modern Thought." All members of the University are invited to attend...
...clock on the "Gloucester Fishermen and Their Work." Mr. Connolly was born in South Boston in 1868. He was for a few months in the Lawrence Scientific School, served with the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry, U. S. V., 1898, and was at the battle of Santiago. He is the author of "Jeb Hutton," "Out of Gloucester," "The Seiners," "On Tibes Knoll" and "The Deep Sea's Toll." The lecture is open only to members of the Union...
...Advocate's prose begins with some commonplace, and fortunately also common-sense, words of the editors to Freshmen. Then it rambles through Mr. Ford's "Varied Outlooks," which are so very varied that few readers will know what the author wishes them to see. It is better in Mr. Edward Sheldon's "Among Those Sailing." There are good things in the story; but the hero and heroine, probably unlike any lovers who ever lived that were worth their salt, stop in their mutual declaration of love to compare themselves with Mr. and Mrs. Browning. Mr. Rogers MacVeagh's "Anonymously Dedicated...
...maps, is a gift from the German Emperor to the Library, "to express the thanks of the Prussian Government for the effective promotion of German-American interchange of men of learning." Another gift from the Prussian Government to the Library is many of the works of the German author Von Menzel...