Word: authority
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Dixon is a specialist on the economics of transportation, and is the author of "State Railroad Control" and numerous articles on transportation problems. The lecture will be open to the public...
Professor Kuehnemann is the author of a "Life of Schiller" and of a "Life of Herdi," both of which are standard works. He has written numerous essays, among which his dissertations on "Spinoza," "Plato," and the "Influence of Kant on Schiller," deserve special mention...
George Foot Moore, "Professor in this University of the history of religion, scholar, preacher, teacher, and author, and in every function an exact, erudite, wise, and fertile thinker...
...Modern Language Club and the Alliance Francais celebrated the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Pierre Corneille, the great French author and dramatist, last Wednesday night with great success. M. Jusserand, the French ambassador at Washington, opened the program with a brief address. Professor R. L. Sanderson then spoke in French on the life and works of Corneille. Immediately after this the French Club presented Corneille's great tragedy...
...first 800 verses of Aeschylus' poem, most of them in the form of choral odes, make a kind of moral prologue. It may sometimes seem to us that the plot does not advance with sufficient rapidity; at other moments the author seems to bridge over the past and present, disregarding the unity of time. He makes Agamemnon appear at home the morning after Troy was captured. This, Dr. Verrall and other critics consider a monstrous heresy in regrad to unity. But the sheer length of the choral odes creates a sense of the passage of time, so that no incongruity...