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...theme of the editorial is of course sae athletic situation; indeed it would almost appear that this none too inspiring topic has found in our midst a congenial place of permanent abode. But the tenor of this editorial is sane and indicious; the writer is sage enough to have observed that in this world they who seek equity must do equity; more apt to be effected through the channels of compromise than through a rigid insistence by one side upon the letter of its claims. Few things are more easy than to persuade men of the absolute justice of their...
Gibbon's ambition from early youth, he said, was to be a writer of history, and his early life was one of constant study and preparation for his great life work, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." This work is one of the greatest historical works written, and has placed Gibbon with Hume and Robertson at the head of English historians. Gibbon's idea was that history, besides the necessary technicalities, should be literature, and this was a great factor in his success...
Henry Milner Rideout '99, whose book is reviewed by Mr. Castle below, has rapidly come into fame as a novel writer in the last three years. Before being graduated from Harvard College in 1899, he edited "Letters of Thomas Gray" in his Senior year, and also Tennyson's "Princess" in co-operation with Mr. C. T. Copeland '82. Mr. Rideout was instructor in English from 1899-1904. In 1906 his first novel, "Beached Keels," was published. Since then have followed "The Siamese Cat," and "Admiral's Light...
After attending the Universities of New York and Chicago. Professor Rhodes entered business, but soon retired and moved to Boston, and soon began writing history. He has now become the foremost writer of history of the United States, and has recently completed his greatest work. "The History of the United States since the Compromise of 1850." The degree of I.L.D. has been conferred upon him by Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and other universities. President Eliot's words, in delivering the degree, were: "The historian of the slavery debate, and of the Civil War and its issues; and accurate and impartial delineator...
...Hampshire. He is a member of the Union and Century Clubs of New York, of the Union and Century Clubs of New York, of the Union and the Tennis and Racquet Clubs of Boston, and of the University Club of St. Louis. He has attained much prominence as a writer by the following books: "The Celebrity," "Richard Carvel," "The Crisis," "The Crossing," and "Coniston...