Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rich philanthropist summons a Common loafer to dine because he wishes to life "one of these poor men . . . . from the street to a position of trust." There is, however, a striking novelty of diction which blinds us to the triteness of the material; and the author's style fairly bristles with delightful neologiams--such as "largesse...
...impression of largeness and dignity given by many of the lines, it can hardly be called completely articulate. Frank Dazey's "Sonnet" is the best piece of verse in the number. As for the "Song" by Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow, it is written in what, I fear, the author supposed to be Scots dialect. It is about a little boy who heard a robin sing, and apparently died. In any case, when the robin came back from the south, it came alone. British robins, it is true, do not go south in winter; and in general the natural history...
...Rabindranath Tagore of Calcutta, India, delivered a lecture on "Man's Relation to the Universe" in Emerson J yesterday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Mr. Tagore is recognized as the leading scholar and poet of his country and is the author of many plays, essays, short stories, and poems...
...competition for it. With an intercollegiate contest, the best of these contributions might be submitted to a board of judges who would also receive the most commendable essays submitted in the contest at Yale. Then this body might select the winning work and give the prize to its author. The establishment of any such plan would surely increase to a large degree the interest and activity of the students of both institutions in literary and scholarly work, for the spirit of intercollegiate competition would be a powerful stimulant to intellectual energy...
...bench in the King's Court in 1442; many copies of tenures written by Sir Thomas de Littleton (1407-1481), an English and legal writer, whose "Les Tenures" is a very rare edition; a precious book, "Exposiciones i minorz legu Angloz," by John Rastell the English printer and author who served in Parliament in 1529; and a number of valuable manuscripts dealing with the Magna Charta, printed in vellum "by an English scribe," one of which was probably executed at the beginning of the fourteenth century. With these newly acquired copies of early English statutes, there was purchased a valuable...