Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Student," the Amherst paper has recently introduced a new department under the head of "The College Trifler." Each week the anonymous writer takes some subject on college customs and practices...
...into a system of public parks may appear at first a little out of the run of college affairs. And yet upon careful consideration, we realize that it is a subject which can well receive the thoughtful attention of the students of the University. The position taken by the writer is well chosen. It is not out of place for Harvard to ally herself with the interests of the community; and yet we feel that even the interests of the University are in a way concerned. We shall not lose anything by indifference to the scheme; there is how ever...
Hamlin Garland, the celebrated writer, is delivering his course of lectures on American Literature at the Boston School of Oratory...
Defoe was a writer of varied abilities. He was one of the greatest tale tellers of all time. He was the first great journalist of the world, and he took so lively an interest in all the deeds of his time and wrote so well of them, that he may be called the oracle...
...speaking of racing, a writer in Outing says "at present the national tendency toward legislation in racing, recalls the old fable of the mountain that brought forth a mouse, but it is hard to say what a month or even a week may show. The passage of some really satisfactory measure would be of the greatest service, not only to the actual states that would possess them, but as setting an example to the entire country. The plague - for it amounts to nothing less - of unrestricted racing must be checked...