Word: clue
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...until recently that any authentic clue was found as to the exact date of John Harvard's birth. The entry--"1607, November 29, John Harvey, S. of Robt. a Butcher"--which appeared in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, led historians, upon the occasion of the 300th celebration of his birth to fix November 26 as his rightful birthday. This was done because the custom in vogue in churches at that time required the baptism of all children on the third day after birth. In lieu of holding the celebration on Friday morning when few men would...
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...
...material. What he is more or less impervious to is points-of-view, interpretations. He seems to lack philosophy. The college has to let too many undergraduates pass out into professional and business life, not only without the germ of a philosophy, but without any desire for an interpretative clue through the maze. In this respect the American undergraduate presents a distinct contrast to the European. For the latter does seem to get a certain intellectual setting for his ideas which makes him intelligible and gives journalism and the ordinary expression of life a certain tang which we lack here...
...until recently that any authentic clue was found as to the exact date of John Harvard's birth. The entry--"1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of Robt. a Butcher"--which appeared in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, led historians, upon the occasion of the 300th celebration of his birth to fix November 26 as his rightful birthday. This was done because of the custom in vogue in churches at that time which required the baptism of all children on the third day after birth. In lieu of holding the celebration tomorrow, Thanksgiving, the meeting...
...work on "The Mary Carleton Narratives," has suggested a new source of English realism in the seventeenth century police court biographies. Mary Carleton, a once famous adventuress, has been the subject of many biographies, which give not only a picture of the charlatinism of the period, but a clue to a numerous series of plagiarisms...