Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...still some doubt in the mind of the average reader of his article as to whether or not the acquisition of the private dormitories by the University would be a wise thing. The article is well worth reading, however, and there is room for thought in what the author says...
Professor G. P. Baker '87 is the author and coach of the presentation. There will be seven episodes, showing the development in the history of Harvard from the time when Sir Thomas Hollis was a benefactor of the College back in the eighteenth century down through the American Revolution to modern times The whole thing has been very carefully worked up by Professor Baker, and gives a remarkably clear and accurate picture of Hollis Hall and the student life about it at all stages in its history...
...which the most interesting are "Jason", an anonymous dramatic monologue, a poem of smooth metrical effect, and much beauty of phrase, and a narrative sketch "At the Third Table," by W. F. Merrill. This narrative has far too little action. It attracts one, however, by its quiet realism. The author has a sense of the values of character in a group of people at a common-place because he has observed them so shrewdly...
...article "Wagner--After the Noise of Battle," by H. K. Moderwell '12. For example, if anyone of the ancient objections to Wagner's voiceparts. has been amply refuted by the experience of the last forty years, it is that they "tend to tear his singers to pieces," as the author of this article affirms. It has, on the contrary, been observed again and again that the only singers whose voices have been seriously injured by singing the more heroic Wagner roles, have been those who have either not known how to sing, or whose voices were by nature unsuited...
Professor Gardiner took a considerable part in the teaching of English literature and Composition and was at one time in charge of English A. His chief interest lay in a course on the English Bible and in enriching the collection of Bibles in the College Library. He was the author of "Forms of Prose Literature." "Elements of English Composition," and "The Bible as English Literature." At the time of his death he left unfinished a history of the University...