Word: baconian
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...Philip Frances Samuels, Baconian scholar, editor, and independent book vendor, uncrooked one elbow from around a copy of "Ear ce Rammed," peered intently through his spectacles, and poked a long bony finger at the CRIMSON reporter. "Sure, I'm still here," said he, indicating with a jerk of his head the irregular piles of volumes stacked along the side of his hole in the wall at 30a Boylston St. "Sure, the cops've got nothing on me. They're just trying to scare me out. I don't have to have any license...
...lecture before a group of Mr. Kittredge's advanced Shakespeare students. I am sure that, if the class and Mr. Kittredge read my book, "Man vs. Ape in the Play of Earce-Rammed," they will be able to speak more intelligently, and with a broader authority, on the Baconian question which has agitated our scholars so long. Mr. Kittredge was sent a copy of my book last February; since it has not been returned, I assume that he received it. Although he is the educational product of another age, and naturally unsympathetic to the mind...
...explanation of this neology lies the key to the Baconian dilemma; it is with that explanation that I have concerned myself in "Man vs. Ape." To that end, much of the book has been devoted to a code, and the conclusion of my book is the conclusion of the code. Obviously such a book cannot be quickly read, digested, or judged; the kind of approach which it demands is the kind of approach which Harvard men, above all, should have. The process of obtaining it will prepare the men of Harvard to preach the gospel of truth in the four...
Judge Holmes is best known to the general public by his book entitled "The Authorship of Shakespeare," in which he advocates the Baconian theory. He was a man of large and varied learning and a very interesting talker...