Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Silas Deane and the coming of Lafayette," an interesting historical article showing us how much we owe to Silas Deane for the coming of Lafayette to America. A. L. Perry has an article "Protection," giving a very good idea of the protective system. J. P. Pollad the young Chicago writer, is the author of the short story of the number "The Convict Who Escaped." It is rather a striking story. "Andy Rick's Handy Tricks," another short story written by L. K. Meekins, one of the editors of the Baltimore American. The poetry of the number is very good...
...that such a sentiment has a glimmer of truth in it. The people with whom such flippant and inane flashes of wit have any weight at all, are those who have never heard of Harvard, or have received their knowledge of her through just such unreliable sources as the writer of the passage quoted above. A man who knows Harvard as she is would never sacrifice his reputation for intelligence and fairmindedness so far as to make himself responsible for such words. If he was not acquainted with the facts of the case, he is not justified in trying...
...which communications should be handed in for publication. In the first place the writing should be on one side of the paper only, a fact disregarded by at least one half of the men who send in contributions. Another point on which we must insist is that the writer sign his name and address though naturally not for publication unless desired. If a communication is not thus properly signed, we do not deem it worthy of consideration. If a man is not willing to let his name be known to the editors, we certainly do not wish to give...
After a few years of teaching, he entered the Divinity School, and then accepted a charge in Portsmouth, where he remained for twenty-seven years. Here he laid the foundations of his reputation as thinker and writer. He was through out his life-time a prolific contributor to the magazines, and a frequent author of works upon religious topics. His writings combine the clear, vigorous, rich and suggestive style with the power of unprejudiced, critical, mature, and even sublime thought...
...very poor. David B. Frankenburger contributes a well illustrated article on the University of Wisconsin. He gives a short sketch of the life of the University with brief histories of some of the most notable men who have been connected with it. William S. Nevins, the well known writer on witchcraft has an article on the importance of "The Study of Local History." One of the best things in this number is "Proportional Representation" by Stoughton Cooley. It is an able treatment of an important subject which is now a matter of interest to everyone interested in the purification...