Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Some time ago the Museum acquired the Syriac manuscripts from the library of the late Professor Isaac Hall of New York. Professor Hall was probably the best-known American scholar in Syriac...
...Smith, who is a well known artist, executed the mural decorations in the Boston Public Library, and on the exterior of Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia. He also made copies for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts of "Alexander Sarcophagus," in the Imperial Museum, Constantinople...
...been a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor. He completed the eleventh United States census, and was in 1895 appointed United States Commissioner of Labor, but resigned the position in 1902 to become president of Clark College. He is well known for the authoritative writings in the field of social economics...
...classical performance a very modern comedy. "L'Armour Medicin," a short play by Moliere with lively ballet and music, will be followed by Tristan Barnard's amusing vaudeville "L'Anglais Tel Qu'on Le Parle." The rehearsals are progressing satisfactorily under the direction of Mons. Ernest Perrin, the well known Paris actor, who is at present professor of dramatic diction in New York...
...Hyde, who is president of the Gaelic League, is a distinguished scholar and poet, and is today one of the best known and most influential men in Ireland. He is the author of several dramas which are now popular in Ireland, and he has written much original poetry, both in English and in the Gaelic tongue. Dr. Hyde's best known work is his literary history of Ireland which is considered the most comprehensive and connected history of Gaelic literature ever written...