Word: editor
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...Sidney Lee. Litt.D., of London, lectured in Sanders Theatre last evening on "National Biography." He explained at length the scope and purpose of the monumental "Dictionary of National Biography," of which he has been editor. This dictionary, he said, aims to record notable achievements by men and women of British nationality. Since the names of many Americans who have made their reputation in England are also included in the roll, the dictionary has thus the come in one sense a record of exchange of service. A national biography is the most efficient method, the lecturer state, in conclusion, of responding...
...Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology of the American Museum of Natural History will lecture in the Union at 7.15 o'clock this evening on "The Study of Birds in Nature." The lecture will be illustrated by eighty stereopticon views. Mr. Chapman, who is a noted naturalist, is the editor of "Bird--Lore" and the author of a number of ornithological works. The lecture tonight will take the place of the regular Tuesday evening Union entertainment...
...celebrated English literary critic, editor of the "Dictionary of National Biography," and author of "A Life of William Shakespeare." He will lecture in several of the larger cities of the United States during his stay in this country, and is now giving a course of eight lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston on "Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century...
Harper's--"The Literary Age of Boston," by Professor George E. Woodberry '77; "Editor's Easy Chair," by William Dean Howells...
...York Harvard Club will be held at Delmonico's, corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-fourth street, New York, on Friday evening, February 20. The principal speakers of the evening will be as follows: Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton: Hamilton W. Mabie, of Williams, editor of the "Outlook;" Otto Bannard, president of the New York Yale Club; Edward Wetmore '60, ex-president of the New York Harvard Club and a member of the Board of Overseers; Francis R. Appleton '75, and Professor L. B. R. Briggs...