Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Henry Adams, the author of Democracy, is writing a large work in several volumes upon the "History of Political Parties in the United States...
...Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus Christi once had Coleridge for a pupil, and from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff was a fellow of Merton College in 1364, and Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands lacy Mountains," were students of Brasenose College. And so on I might go, but the list of great names is almost endless. Every building is historic, and every walk has traditions of those whose names the world will...
...shows that since the time of Luther it has been the dominent force in education. He traces the various phases of its development, and gives most carefully drawn pictures of the men who were distinguished in this field. But the study of the past does not blind this author to the demand of to day. The historical development of the last three centuries, he says, may be defined as a slow but steady progress toward the formation of a distinct modern culture, separating itself gradually from the ancient civilization out of which it grew. To day this modern society...
...asserted that Yale has never disgraced foot ball by brutality, that she has never by any of her acts brought discredit upon the game, that she has never yielded to any one the first place as a promoter of beneficial legislation, we can feel only admiration for the author of this particular bit of fancy...
...which Mr. Gosse recently had the good fortune to discover while preparing his forthcoming edition of Gray's works for the press. The public are invited to attend. It is hoped that the reputation of Mr. Gosse as one of the most scholarly of English critics and as an author and poet, as well as the interest of his subject, will secure a large attendance from the college itself. It is peculiarly a mark of courtesy towards the college on the part of Mr. Gosse that he will next Monday deliver this lecture for the first time...