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...published in 1602 with the help of Queen Elizabeth after fifteen years of translation from English to Gaelic and given to the College by Fred N. Robinson '91, Guerney Professor of English, at the Tercentenary celebration. Among the Irish manuscripts on display are "The Dialogue of St. Patrick and Ossian," "The Story of Eadhmonn O'Cleirridh," and "Trompa Na Bflaithios...
...repeated defense of the Journal, that Johnson himself had seen and approved it, was "gravely misleading." Although the high points of the previous Journal-the accounts of Johnson reproving Boswell for drunkenness, the celebrated orders to Mrs. MacLeod not to leave her family home, the great arguments on Ossian, on Burke, on Hume, Garrick, Goldsmith and Swift-remain the high points of the present edition, the new book is more intimate, less stilted, abounds in picturesque details of travelers' discomforts in the islands off Scotland in 1773. The Journal begins with its superb description of the Rambler...
...prodigy of versatility and popularity was the late Fenton Benedict Turck-doctor, scientist, esthete. The variety among his close friends mirrored the variety of his interests-Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree (see p. 45), Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Sculptor Lorado Taft, Entomologist Leland Ossian Howard, Politician Sir Robert Laird Borden, Immunologist Theobald Smith. As doctor he was an internist, with digestive disorders his specialty. Last week, at the behest of Manhattan's August Holland Society, friends of the late Fenton Benedict Turck gathered to honor the posthumous publication of a book by him-Action...
...goatee of Yale's Irving Fisher was to be seen at the centre of several discussion groups but did not tarry long as Dr. Fisher had other learned meetings to attend in Washington. Other goatees present belonged to the Department of Agriculture's Dr. Leland Ossian Howard, specialist on parasitic hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants, etc.), and his departmental colleague Dr. Altus Lacy Quaintance, specialist in aleyrodidae (fruit...
...Song of Ossian's "Fingal...