Word: historian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Flint in his talk this evening will make a resume of the causes of the war against the Philippines and will discuss the methods of the campaign as compared with British campaigns in similar countries. Mr. Flint is at present writing the biography of the late John Fiske, the historian...
...United Sates; Henry Smith Prichett, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; William Caleb Loring '71, Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; Wayne MacVeagh, former Ambassador to Italy; Jakob Heinrick van't Hoff, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Berlin; James Ford Rhodes, historian; Charles Sprague Sargent 62, Arnold Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard University, and Director of the Arnold Arboretum; James Tyndale Mitchell '55, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania...
...best work of the romanticists has been completed. The two leading men of this reaction were Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle. The latter is essentially an objective poet and his poetry is noticeable lacking in any personal lyric strain. He is a poet philosopher and something of an historian. Baudelaire maintained that inspiration consists of work and he opposed the romanticists' idea of subordinating art to the artist...