Word: authority
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...preached many years, and did much toward relieving the suffering of those punished for witchcraft. In 1700 the General Court of Cambridge appointed him Vice-President of the College with all the powers of President, a position which he filled until his death in 1707. He was the author of over fifty-one works on religious subjects...
...London is well known as the author of a dozen books, including "The Call of the Wild," "The Sea Wolf," and "The War of the Classes," and was correspondent for the New York American in the Russo-Japanese War. He represents the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, of which he is president...
...Hyde, who is president of the Gaelic League, is a distinguished scholar and poet, and is today one of the best known and most influential men in Ireland. He is the author of several dramas which are now popular in Ireland, and he has written much original poetry, both in English and in the Gaelic tongue. Dr. Hyde's best known work is his literary history of Ireland which is considered the most comprehensive and connected history of Gaelic literature ever written...
...Hugh Black, D.D., of Edinburgh, Scotland, will conduct the service in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. Black, who is a distinguished preacher and author, is associated with one of the foremost Presbyterian churches in Scotland, and is now on leave of absence to act as professor in the Union Theological Seminary of New York...
...scientific progress. The man of science investigates things material, and reports the manifestations of some of the brute forces of nature. This knowledge is used merely to make things that will increase bodily comfort, or will destroy enemies. So long as science does not teach us of the author of the uniformity of nature, it fails to develop character...