Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Robert Grant, author of "Confessions of a Frivolous Girl," has written a new novel, called "An Average...
Prof. Knapp of Yale College, the editor of classical Spanish writings, and the author recently of a Spanish grammar, will soon issue "Readings in Spanish Literature...
...Science of Politics," by Sheldon Amos, professor of jurisprudence in University College, London, and author of "The Science of Law," has just appeared...
...declares that "it is only just to say that we are not acquainted with any book produced by any man at either university which does so much for the popular knowledge of ancient art as this work by a student from one of the Cambridge colleges for women." The author of this book is a graduate of Girton College for Women, and the Academy reviewer (a university man) proposes its immediate introduction into the preparatory studies for the universities - for the Cambridge classical tripos, now, with the mathematical tripos, first open to women...
London Truth furnishes a counterpart to an Oxford story of a solicitor, who, in trying for a degree in law, was "plucked" upon a text-book of which he was himself the author, as follows: "Two of the disappointed candidates at a recent examination for admission to the bar are men who have already attained eminence at the Indian bar, where the practice is substantially the same as in England, and where the standard of the bar is notoriously but little inferior. One of these gentlemen has for some years had a professional income of pound15,000 per annum...