Word: writer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...terms of the will of the late Francis Boott '31 an annual prize of one hundred dollars will hereafter be awarded annually to the writer of the best composition in concerted vocal music. Either undergraduates or members of any graduate school of Harvard University may compete...
...necessary that the men who are to be in public service should study politics as a science. The times are now more propitious for such study than ever before, for the material is more abundant. Now nearly every civilized nation furnishes this material. Compare the materials with which the writer of the Federalist Papers worked and the vast material which constitutional governments now furnish. With the exception of Russia and Montenegro there is no civilized nation which does not have some form of popular government...
Baron Kaneko is an authority on constructional law, a well-known writer on economic and political subjects, and the foremost orator in the Japanese House of Peers. He is president of the "American Friends' Society," and a close student of American institutions. To him, perhaps, more than to any other one man, is due the credit of bringing about the present friendly relations between America and Japan...
...first attack on the House Committee the writer shows his ignorance of facts. Contrary to his statement, last year's chairman was elected in the spring of 1903 when he had no intention of being away for the first half of this year and consequently the members of this committee cannot be blamed for electing a man who was to be absent for the greater part of his term. The next in accuracy is in reference to the appointment instead of the election last fall of the succeeding chairman. A glance at the records of the secretary of the House...
...appointed lecturer at Oxford. From 1882 until the past winter he was professor of Greek at Edinburgh. He has also served as a member of the Scottish Universities Commission and of the more recent Royal Commission on University Education in Ireland. Dr. Butcher is well known as a writer for his prose translation with Mr. Andrew Lang of Homer's "Odyssey," for his volume of essays entitled "Some Aspects of Greek Genius" and for his ambitious work, "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...