Word: authorship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...today as we had twenty or thirty years ago. And it is this that makes me doubtful as to the value to literature of our enormous machinery of higher education-it is this that puzzles and rather depresses me when I think of the connection between college education and authorship...
...question is that a man who is blessed with a genius for writing will become an author with or without college training. Mark Twain gained his college training in a printing office and a pilot house, and Cooper gained his on board a fighting ship. Schools of authorship will probably never exist, for the man who specializes in the art of authorship will need little help in the selection of his courses. College training will help these men of gifted ability, but it can never produce them. The reasons for the lack of literary geniuses during a certain period must...
...wrote one of these plays and Clyde Fitch wrote 'Gammer Gurton's Needle.'" The fact that Clyde Fitch was not born until some two hundred years after the writing of the comedy did not seem to count. But the conversation brings to light several interesting facts about the actual authorship of the play, generally attributed to John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and formerly resident master of arts at Christ's College. However, there is no conclusive evidence of John Still's authorship, and the farce, "made by Mr. S., master of arts," as explained in some...
Each dissertation must bear, in place of the author's name, some sentence or device, and must be accompanied by a sealed packed, bearing the same sentence or device, and containing within the author's name and residence. Any clue by which the authorship of a dissertation is made known to the Committee will debar such dissertation from the competition...
Nearly four pages of the first number of the Advocate are given over to verse. If, as the leading editorial, with ability, points out, the function of this independent periodical is to be not only a depository for spontaneous undergraduate authorship, but also for spirited undergraduate opinion, this amount of verse and the lack in this issue of much spirited undergraduate opinion, raises the question whether poetry has not elbowed out somewhat current interest and timeliness. Perhaps the quality of much of this poetry is justification; there is true quality in Clark's "Nocturnes" and a suggestion of the much...