Word: authorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been hailed by subsequent generations as a genius. There is a modern case which is still being fought out. Although the dispute as to whether Daisy Ashford or Sir James Barrie wrote the "Young Visiters" was allowed for a time to slip into a state of lethargy, the authorship has not yet been settled. If proved forgery always brings in its train lasting fame, the point grows more interesting...
...least many suppose it to be, taken for granted that a press bearing the name of a certain university is the natural publisher of that university faculty's efforts in the field of authorship...
...judgment would also have indicated the waste-basket as the proper depositary for a letter which the CRIMSON printed a few days ago over the signature of an alleged alumnus whose name does not appear in the Alumni Directory. This letter, quite apart from the apparent hoax of its authorship, would not have been given space in any reputable publication edited by full-grown men, for its contents were insulting to a considerable element in our citizenship...
Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania: "Two students of Keystone School, an experimental institution which Mrs. Pinchot has organized in Harrisburg, are credited with co-authorship of the following school yell...
...acclaimed by some discerning critics as the greatest painter of all time, has been discovered in Paris. It represents a young boy, half-length, full-face, auburn curls, scalloped collar, yellowish silver-gray jacket, brownish-red cloak. Many connoisseurs had seen the picture but had not suspected its authorship until a dealer, noting the resemblance to Vermeer's charming Young Girl in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, found various other clues, and was corroborated by the leading Vermeer critic...