Word: authors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...College Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. The essays are to be signed with a motto or an assumed name, and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope marked outside with the same motto or name, but enclosing a statement of the real name and academic standing of the author...
Foremost in interest among the articles in the Monthly for January, is a short account of the life of Henry Warren Torry '33, who was McLean professor of history at Harvard from 1857 until his death on December 14 last. The author, Professor MacVane, also writes interestingly of Professor Torrey's work at Harvard and gives an idea of his delightful personality...
...rest of the Monthly suffers somewhat from being too entirely devoted to literary subjects. Four of the five articles treat of the writings of different authors in their various phases. "A New England Mystic," by Carleton E. Noyes, gives some comment on the character of Jones Very, but largely as it showed itself through his poetry. "The Elizabethan and the Greek,- a Study in Lyric Poetry," by E. K. Rand, is, as its name implies, a comparison of the lyrics of the Greeks with those of the poets of England at the time of that nation's greatest prosperity. Following...
William L. Wilson, author of the tariff bill now before Congress, will address the Kent Club, the debating society of Yale, during the winter term on some topic selected by himself, probably a theme incidental to tariff legislation. The date is not yet decided, but it will probably be during March...
Chief of caricaturists is A. B. Frost. Full of humor himself, he catches the idea of the author and always succeeds in making the situation a little funnier than the author had conceived it. Besides his caricatures, his sketches of Negro and camp life are not excelled by any in sincerity and genuineness...