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Royal Cortissoz
Royal Cortissoz , 1869-1948, American critic and lecturer on art. He was the New York Herald Tribune art critic from 1891 and was noted for his lectures at the Metropolitan Museum and at other museums throughout the United States. He wrote biographies of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1907), John La... Read more |
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Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks 1835-93, American Episcopal bishop, b. Boston. In 1869 he began his ministry at Trinity Church, Boston, where he became one of the most influential ministers of his time. In 1891 he was consecrated bishop of Massachusetts. His lectures at Yale were published as Lectures on... Read more |
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Benjamin Robert Haydon
Benjamin Robert Haydon 1786-1846, English historical painter and writer. A painter in the Grand Manner expounded by Reynolds, Haydon was also a popular teacher, writer, and lecturer. His lectures on design were published in 1847. Among his admirers were most of the great literary figures of the... Read more |
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Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Esposito 1958– Actor, lecturer At a.... Read more |
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Sir Raymond Unwin
Sir Raymond Unwin , 1863-1940, English architect and town planner. He designed the first English garden city near Letchworth, the New Earwick development in Yorkshire, and Hampstead Garden near London. He lectured on housing and city planning at the Univ. of Birmingham (1911-14) and Columbia Univ.... Read more |
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825–1911 Poet, writer, lecturer, activist Privileged Upbringing Did Not Stave Off Loneliness Lectur... Read more |
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Dugald Stewart
Dugald Stewart 1753-1828, Scottish philosopher. He studied at the Univ. of Edinburgh, later becoming professor of mathematics (1775-85) and of moral philosophy (1785-1810). After retiring he devoted himself to writing. A student of Thomas Reid and strongly influenced by him, Stewart is credited... Read more |
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Chautauqua movement
Chautauqua movement development in adult education somewhat similar to the lyceum movement. It derived from an institution at Chautauqua, N.Y. There, in 1873, John Heyl Vincent and Lewis Miller proposed to a Methodist Episcopal camp meeting that secular as well as religious instruction be... Read more |
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Iyanla Vanzant
Iyanla Vanzant 1953— Counselor, lawyer, writer, lecturer Iyanla (pronounced EE-yan-lah) Vanzant has overcome overwhelming personal difficulties to become a lawyer, minister, talk show host, best-selling author, and national advocate for literacy. Through her self-named "dark valley... Read more |
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Bliss Carman
Bliss Carman , 1861-1929, Canadian poet, b. Fredericton, N.B. He studied at the universities of New Brunswick and Edinburgh and at Harvard. While at Harvard (1886-88) he began a friendship with Richard Hovey that later resulted in their joint publication of the series Songs from Vagabondia (1894,... Read more |
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