Word: authority
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...essay, "A Plea for Leisure," recognizes a real need in college life that is often lost sight of in our discussions of three-year degrees, and incentives to work. "Leisure," the author says, "means a time for quiet reading, thinking and talking." Emphatically it does not mean a time of stagnation. Neither is it time taken away from study. A boy entering college is at a very impressionable, formative period. We, the teaching force, should find means to stir him intellectually, to rouse his ambition to do, and should also give him time to think, for all the new ideas...
...Lefranc, who will deliver the lectures this year, is an eminent authority on the literature of the French Renaissance. He is also the author of a large number of books on French history and literature. He began his career as a student of French municipal history. In 1888 he became interested in the research study of the French Renaissance. One of his greatest achievements, in this connection, was the discovery in "la Bibliotheque Nationale" of a large number of poems by Marguerite de Navarre, the existence of which had up to that time been unknown. These poems wee published...
...soon as he was out of college, Mr. Bangs took up the career of an author, and has produced many humorous books as well as several farces and musical comedies. Among his better-known works might be mentioned "New Waggings of Old Tales," "Coffee and Repartee," "A House Boat on the Styx," "The Pursuit of the House Boat," "Ghosts I have Met," and many others of the same character...
...John Kendrick Bangs, editor and author, will speak on "Salubrities I Have Met" in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Bangs has been an associate editor of Life, and an editor of Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly, The Metropolitan Magazine, and Puck. As an author he has written a number of tales, among which are A House Boat on the Styx, Ghosts I Have Met, and others of the same nature. In addition he has contributed many short stories to magazines...
...Abbott was graduated from New York University in 1853, and was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1860. He is editor-in-chief of the Outlook, and has been engaged in other editorial work. He is also the author of "Jesus of Nazareth," "Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament," "The Life of Christ," "Life and Letters of Paul," "The Personality of God," and many other books relating to the life of Christ...