Word: hamilton
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Twelve of the original 85 Federalist papers have never been definitely attributed to either of the principal authors, James Madison, or Alexander Hamilton. Statistical evidence shows that most of the disputed papers were written by James Madison, Charles F. Mosteller, professor of Mathematical Statistics, reported yesterday...
Mosteller is working on a project aimed at eliminating the long-standing problem of whether Hamilton or Madison wrote the unidentified papers by collecting and analyzing statistical data about them...
...major "index of authorship" used in Mosteller's study is a word count. "For instance," he explained, "Hamilton uses the word 'enough' often, Madison only rarely." Mosteller thus might be able to determine that an article with enough "enough's" was probably written by Hamilton, always checking by the use of the recurrent words...
...best one, is to appoint a man of great stature in the field, around whom a staff can be built--in short, to appoint a Bliss Professor. Admittedly he is not easy to find; very likely he must be lifted from a program elsewhere. But the University found Sir Hamilton Gibb for Middle Eastern Studies, offering no more than an excellent salary and the promise of a growing center to come. Latin America, so curiously neglected for many decades, deserves as much...
Accent (CBS, 1:30-2 p.m.). A historical drama about the Hamilton-Burr duel, with John Ciardi as host...