Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bryce was introduced by President Eliot, who said that this was the first of a permanent series of lectures relating to government and civic duty. The lectureship bears the name of a great journalist, a man of unusual vigor, sincerity, and candor, who throughout his life pursued high ideals of public duty and liberty. His pen was strong and his writings were often irritating to his opponents. To do him honor, his friends, many of whom differed from him politically, have endowed this lectureship. It is particularly appropriate that the man who is to inaugurate these lectures should...
...North is a prominent journalist and statistician, having been successively managing editor of the Utica Morning Herald, president of the New York State Associated Press, and editor and proprietor of the Albany Express. President McKinley appointed him a member of the United States Industrial Commission in 1898, but he resigned the next year to become chief statistician of manufactures for the twelfth census. In 1903 he was appointed director of the United States census bureau. He is the author of "An American Textile Glossary," "A History of the American Wool Manufacture," and of numerous pamphlets on economic and industrial subjects...
...Italian government to study under Professors Bopp and Weber. He became professor of Sanskrit and comparative literature at the University of Florence in 1863, and has been professor of Italian literature at the University of Rome since 1891. Professor de Gubernatis is well known as a dramatist, poet, journalist, critic, and orientalist. Among his best known plays are "Pere delle Vigue," "La Morte di Catone," "Romolo," and "Savitri." He is a correspondent of several prominent reviews, and has written a number of books...
...necessity compelled to give most of their attention to subjects, and consequently take the attitude that a thorough knowledge of subjects will make them successful in later life, that a knowledge of engineering or of the law or of literature will make them good engineers or lawyers or journalists. But such a view is wrong, for a knowledge of men is an essential to success as a knowledge of subjects. Dr. Abbott then showed that in almost all the professions a man, to be successful, must know and be interested in people. The success of the preacher lies...
...until 1862, when he was sent to Berlin by the Italian government to study under Professor Bopp and Weber. In 1863 he became extraordinary professor of sanskrit and comparative literature at the University of Florence, becoming ordinary professor in 1869. He is well known as a dramatist, lyric poet, journalist, critic, orientalist, and mythologist. Among his best known plays are: "Pere delle Vigne," "La Morte daCatone," "Romolo," "II Re Nala" and "Savitri," Professor De Gubernatis is the Italian correspondent of several of the most prominent monthly reviews and has written many scientific works...