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Harvard proudly announces her acquisition of a splendid collection of the renowned Shakespeare forgeries which were foisted upon a blinking world in the eighteenth century by William Henry Ireland. This assortment is extremely complete, and includes bogus manuscripts, letters, and signatures. Now is the time for some scholar to bring endless discomfiture to the banks of the Charles, by proving that the collection is genuine, and, therefore, spurious. -The Cornell...
...letter suggests as amendment an initial examination of three hours dealing with the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Two hours the next day would then be devoted to the nineteenth cntury. Emphasis on more modern literature is probably determined by the fact that examinations in Bible, Shakespeare, and Ancient Authors have already been held in the Fall of the senior year...
...Collection of the originals of the Ireland forgeries, the well-known literary fraud of the eighteenth century, have recently been acquired by the Harvard College Library. These papers comprise the most famous and the most successful of Shakespearian forgeries, and include both letters which purported to be in his handwriting and pages of the manuscripts of his plays. The author of the forgeries, William Henry Ireland, published them in 1796, claiming to have discovered them in his attic. For a while the forgeries were accepted as authentic by leading authorities to whom Ireland submitted them for examination, but eventually pressure...
...score at the ninth hole. On the tenth, Alliss got a birdie 2, followed by four pars. On the fifteenth he got a birdie 3 and on the sixteenth dropped a 15-ft. putt for another 3. He had a par 4 on the seventeenth. On the eighteenth, he and Farrell both needed birdies to tie Hagen. It seemed to be Farrell's turn but his putt for a 3 rimmed the cup and stayed out. Alliss looked at his ball lying 18 feet from the cup, walked up & down on the wet green for five minutes before...
...dubbed a twelve-inch putt on the sixteenth, took a five instead of a four. This blunder, which would have destroyed the poise of most golfers, appeared to invigorate Von Elm. He played the seventeenth in four, put a mashie shot 15 feet wide of the pin on the eighteenth green and sank the putt, almost angrily, for the birdie and a 292 to match Burke...