Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Walter Thomas Mills, veteran Socialist traveler, author, and orator, will speak on "Industrial Monopoly" in Emerson D this afternoon...
...George Macaulay Trevelyan, English author, will lecture in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Trevelyan is the third son the Sir George Otto Trevelyan, celebrated English author and statesman, and is well-known as a brilliant historical writer, notably in connection with two books on Garibaldi, published...
...mere consistency is a desideratum, the chief virtue of the present number of the "Advocate" is that it maintains a certain harmony of inferiority. Much of the writing is mediocre or positively bad. To the latter class belongs the prosesketch, "A Nightmare Whisper of the War." The author has contracted from Stevenson an aggravated form of the adjectival disease, and the ineffective anti-climax with which the piece concludes does not compensate the reader for the pathological exhibition to which he has been subjected in the foregoing tedious paragraphs. Though free from this contagion, the "storiette" called "A Gamble...
This is followed by "The Facts Concerning Owen Preston," by C. C. Whiting, in which the author tells in a very interesting way a story of occult power exercised by a man, once a Harvard student, over a young girl by means of a locket in the man's possession but which had belonged to the young lady...
...Hugues LeRoux, author, explorer, officer in the Legion of Honor, and editor of "Le Matin," Paris, will deliver a lecture on "The Spirit of France Today" in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. M. LeRoux is now engaged as special envoy from the French secretary of foreign affairs to President Wilson and Secretary Bryan. At the same time he is endeavoring to arouse sentiment for the French in this country...