Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...author of the successful essay is invited to read it in public at a time and place to be designated by the executive committee of the Finance Club...
...unwise requirement,-that may be left to wiser heads to discuss. However, the three years were spent on Greek. It consisted mainly of fundemental mechanical work. The freshman year in Greek seems to be a transition from this condition to a better appreciation of the thoughts of the author and the beauty of the language. By the end of the freshman year one is supposed to be quite familiar with the language. Four years have been invested, so to speak, in Greek. From merely a profit and loss point of view, is it better...
...James Bryce who is to lecture here tonight, and Tuesday, is the author of a history entitled "The Holy Roman Empire" and also of an entertaining book on travels in the East. Mr. Bryce is Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford...
Lately Sir Stafford Northcote was elected Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh, over Mr. Otto C. Trevelyan, the author of the Life of Macaulay, and Professor Blackie. This choice of the students is much condemned, as Sir S. Northcote has shown no proofs, during his long career, of striking intellectual power...
...South Wales offers to reveal the name of the writer of plays and sonnets written by the author of Hamlet. This is as funny as the Boston merchant who after reading Shakespere said that he did not think "there were twenty men in Boston who could have written the plays...