Word: authority
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well-managed, and the incident is only too true to life. Mr. Carlo's "Sin of the Angels" is a college story dealing, not undiscerningly, with the man who would be president of his class but who is absolutely out of the running. It reflects seriously both on the author and the editors that the third sentence should begin, "Being told, his face flushed." Contributors to the Monthly have usually been past this stage. Mr. A. W. Murdoch's dramatic sketch, "In a Park," seems to me a mistake in form. The theme would have lent itself better to treatment...
Theodor Barth, "Lawyer and judge, author on social and economic themes, journalist, honorable representative of German democratic idealism, of the power of public opinion declared through the press, and of that German culture from which this University has happily gathered and still gathers wisdom and inspiration...
Woodrow Wilson, "Virginian of Scotch-Irish descent, vigorous student and teacher of history, politics and government, and eminent author on these subjects, President of Princeton University for five years past, years eventful and fortunate indeed for that patriotic and serviceable institution...
Though the name sounds formidable, the form of the ode is very free. Its length, some fifty pages of the book, enables the author to cover the field,--the Yard, Harvard bridge, the Stadium, the river, Marliave's, Class Day--all the haunts and activities of the normal undergraduate. A few lines of quotation will give an idea of its tone...
...leading article of the current Monthly is a serious and thoughtful essay on "Whistler and the Multitude" by L. Simonson. The author is mistaken, I think, in one of his main theses, that art has no message for the multitude; he is right if he limits himself to the Anglo-Saxon multitude, but wrong if he remembers the Italian; for example one of the most encouraging things in our American composite life is a Sunday afternoon visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Mr. Simonson is wrong, too, in choosing the slashing style, in throwing other critics...