Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...author of a considerable number of books, beginning with the Religious Aspect of Philosophy, published in 1885. His work on the Problem of Christianity, in two volumes, was published in 1913. Between these two dates he wrote a number of books dealing with historical, philosophical, religious and psychological subjects...
...recent performance of "Gammer Gurton's Needle," presented by the Portmanteau Theatre company before the faculty and student body of Amherst College, a woman was heard to explain to her companion that "Stuart Walker wrote one of these plays and Clyde Fitch wrote 'Gammer Gurton's Needle.'" The fact that Clyde Fitch was not born until some two hundred years after the writing of the comedy did not seem to count. But the conversation brings to light several interesting facts about the actual authorship of the play, generally attributed to John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and formerly resident...
...members of the first Advocate board were Edward W. Fox '67, Charles S. Gage '67, William G. Peckham '67, Joseph L. Sanborn '67, Frank P. Stearns '67, and Moses Williams '68. "While there was something of a purely literary spirit among the early Advocate editors," wrote one of them, "yet it was overshadowed by the combative zeal against the ancient Faculty and the ancient abuses, and by the enthusiastic desire to help bring about a better day for Harvard...
...first of the sheets of proof, which are unbound and at Widener are kept in a packet, he wrote, "Adelaide Boodle, these sheets with the kindest remembrances from Robert Louis Stevenson." Much is in the proofs that does not appear in the published volume. Ten lines of one poem were later dropped bodily for some personal reason of the author. There are two corrections of typographical errors and a number of mis-spelled words that had to be rectified...
...Ireland's gift to Widener is a letter Stevenson wrote her husband in reply to a note informing Stevenson of the source of some allusions in "A Gossip on Romance," a magazine article of 1883 written by the English literary man on his dim recollections of some stories his parents read to him when a boy. The third point he makes is more generally interesting and amusing than the first two. The point of the letter is that Mr. Ireland had, as he himself declared, addressed the epistle with "inspired stupidity" to "Mr. R. L. Stephenson." The letter reads...