Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Blaikie, the author of "How to Get Strong," and several other works of like nature, recently delivered an address to the students of Oberlin, his subject being, "Sound Bodies and How to Get Them...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-In the Princeton letter yesterday an allusion was made which would have carried less force had the facts been more plainly and fully stated by the author of the aforesaid letter. The gentleman, having in his mind the Princeton-Pennsylvania score of 31 to 0. says : 'I don't understand how the University of Pennsylvania beat Harvard? Leaving out of the question all flings at the referee, which at best are but cowardly utterances as against a man who cannot defend himself, I think I can account for Princeton's decide victory, though not for Harvard...
...completed in eight volumes, one for each play, with an additional volume devoted to the fragments and supplementary matter, is the result of a long cherished design on the part of the editor, to embody in a single work all that is necessary for a study of his author. Prof. Jebb's purpose, as stated in his preface, is to show fully how the work of Sophocles is understood by him, both in its larger aspects and at every particular point, and also to induce educated readers generally to read for themselves the works of the greatest tragedy writer...
...July Manhattan will have a humorous short story, "Plain Fishing," by Frank R. Stockton, the author of that amusing sketch, the "Lady of the Tiger?" A biographical and critical paper will appear on the Earl of Dufferin, written by J. L. Whittle, the earl's in intimate friend, and one of the staff of the Lord Chancellor of England. J. Parker Norris, so well known as a Shakespearean scholar and collector, is not likely to be lacking in a reverence for Shakespeare, and yet, in discussing the question, "Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave?" he did not hesitate to argue...
...still it must be confessed that they made the crude attempt of a system soon to become universal. Until quite recently the method pursued in the study of languages has been a peculiar one, not to put it too strongly, a method employing the dictionary largely in translating the author's ancient and modern, and altogether ignoring the sound of a language. In fact it was a reasoning system, one that was largely made up of grammar and "trot" and that did not teach a man to distinguish the subtle differences in measure and order by his ear (an organ...