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After graduating from the University Mr. MacKaye studied at the University of Leipzig until 1900. He then returned to this country and taught in a private school in New York until 1904 when he began writing plays. His best known works are "The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer," "Fenris, the Wolf," "Sappho and Phaon," and "Jeanne d'Arc." The last named was produced by E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe in this country and England in 1906-07. Mr. MacKaye has also been a lecturer on American Drama in Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Buffalo...
Announcement has been made by the Department of History and Government that the half-course known as History 12b will be given during the second half of the present year by Mr. Edward Porritt of Hartford, Conn. The course will deal with the history of England in the nineteenth century...
...vigorous style in which it was written, this work at once commanded wide attention, and it is mainly because of the accurate and broad scholarship displayed in these volumes that Mr. Porritt was invited to give instruction at Harvard. As an active journalist Mr. Porritt is well known both in Europe and in America, and his regular letters to leading English journals on matters of American politics always interest a large circle of readers. The half-course which he is to give will deal with a field in which he possesses unusual proficiency and his lectures will doubtless be both...
Other interesting objects are an early English hornbook, and an American hornbook found in New Jersey, one of three known specimens with a battledore and some early English primers. There is also the only known copy of Lilley's Latin Grammar, and a unique handbook of penmanship issued...
...born in Roxbury in 1835 and was educated at New York University. After practicing law for three years, he entered the ministry, and since 1860 has been engaged in ministerial, literary and editorial work. He is editor-in-chief of the Outlook and is the author of many well-known publications...