Word: authorized
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...York this winter was written by a Harvard man of the Class of 1908. The CRIMSON has chosen two criticisms from the daily press to reprint in this morning's issue which fairly represent the critics' idea of the worth of "Salvation Nell." The play was written while the author was still in college and in connection with work in one of the courses in the English department. The criticisms of the play have naturally been concerned in considerable measure with the author himself, this being his first production, and they have been extremely favorable. Mr. Sheldon has made...
...Gibbs was the author of many valuable chemical researches and as editor of "The American Journal of Science and Arts" he contributed a large number of articles in the department of physics. For his distinguished work Professor Gibbs was honored by many learned societies. He was president of the National Academy of Sciences and enjoyed the distinction of being the only American ever elected an honorary member of the American Chemical Society...
...piece of verse displaying Mr. Bell's usual facility in handling the sonnet form. "Before Morning" by T. S. E. fails in effect; one is jolted, not impressed. "Marah" by Mr. Pulsifer is better. Mr. Greene's "On a Pearl Shell" is a good thought ill-expressed. If the author of the "Snowshoe Song" can attune his snowshoe steps to the metre of his song, he must be an adept at the sport. A ski on a fair incline could hardly keep pace with it. As a picture, though, of pine forest in winter, it is not without atmosphere provided...
...professor at Harvard since 1872. The best-known course which he conducted in the University was Philosophy D, on general problems in philosophy. Upon his resignation he was made "professor emeritus," and since then he has devoted much of his time to writing and lecturing. He is the author of "Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking," a work which has attracted wide attention both in this country and in Europe...
...Lincoln Steffens, author of "The Shame of the Cities," delivered a very interesting lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "Politics the Game." He described the corruption which pervades our municipal, State, and Federal governments...