Sharp
Sharp names 6 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Sharp DALLAS LORE, an Ameri-' can writer and educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DALLAS LORE, an Ameri-' can writer and educator, born at Haleyville, N. J., in 1870. He graduated from Brown University, in 1895, and studied theology at the Boston University. He was ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1895, and served as pastor of a church in Massachusetts until 1899, when he was appointed assistant HAMMERHEAD SHARK librarian of the Boston University. In 1902 he became assistant professor of English at that institute, and full professor in 1909. His books and articles on nature subjects obtained a wide popularity. They include "Wild Life Near Home" (1901) Hom (1901); "The Face of the Fields" (1911); "Winter" (1912); "Beyond the Pasture Bars" (1913); "The Hills of Hingham" (1916).
Sharp a part of a stream where the current runs very rapidly
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a part of a stream where the current runs very rapidly; as, sharps and eddies. In music, a sign, which, when prefixed to a note, elevates it by a semitone in the scale. When placed at the beginning of a piece of music, it denotes that all the notes on the line or space on which it is placed, and their octaves above and below, are to be played sharp. A double sharp X raises a note two semitones. To brace sharp, in nautical language to brace the yards as obliquely as possible, in order to bring a ship well up to the wind.
Sharp WILLIAM GRAVES, an American diplomatist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM GRAVES, an American diplomatist, born at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, in 1859. He graduated from the Law De Department of the University of Michigan, in 1881 1881, and for several years practiced law at Elyria, Ohio. From 1885 to 1888 he was prosecuting attorney of Lorain co., Ohio. He was active in politics and was a delegate to several Democratic conventions. In 1909 he was elected to Congress, and was re-elected successively until 1914, when he resigned on his appointment as ambassador to France. He served in this capacity from December, 1914, to April, 1919.
Sharp WILLIAM, a British critic and man of letters
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, a British critic and man of letters; born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, Sept. 12, 1856; was educated at Glasgow University. He traveled extensively, and contributed to leading publications throughout the world. His works include "Humanity and Man," a "The Conqueror's Dream, and Other Poems"; "Dante Gabriel Rossetti" biography; "Shakespeare's Songs, a Poems and Sonnets"; "Sonnets of this "Ro- Century"; "Shelley," a biography; mantic Ballads"; "Lyrical Poems" (1899); in fiction, "Children of Tomorrow," etc. He also wrote under the name of FIONA MACLEOD, (q. v.). He died Dec. 14, 1905.
Sharp ELIZABETH AMELIA (Mrs
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIZABETH AMELIA (Mrs. William Sharp), an English art critic, born at London in 1856. She was educated privately and at University College, London, and in 1884 married the late William Sharp (Fiona Macleod). Her works include: "Women Poets"; "Sea-Music"; "Heine's Italian Travel Sketches"; "Heine's Art and Letters"; "Lyra Celtica, an Anthology of the Poetry of the Celt"; '; "A Monograph on Rembrandt"; "William Sharp, a Memoir"; "Collected Writings of Fiona Macleod" (7 vols.); "Selected Writings of William Sharp" (5 vols.).
Sharp ROBERT, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, an American educator, born at Lawrenceville, Va., in 1851. He graduated from the Randolph-Macon College, in 1876, and took post-graduate studies at the University of Leipzig. He was professor of English at the University of Louisiana from 1880 to 1884, and from 1884 to 1913 at Tulane University of Louisiana. From that year to 1918 he was president of the latter institution, and president emeritus from October, 1918. He edited several old English texts and wrote on Anglo-Saxon literature.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Four of the six Sharps were still alive when Collier's compiled these notes in 1921, and the entries stop mid-life: Dallas Lore Sharp, then a Boston University professor of English, died in 1929, and William Graves Sharp, the former ambassador to France, died in 1922, only a year after the account appeared. The largest shift is in how William Sharp is read: Collier's mentions almost in passing that "he also wrote under the name of FIONA MACLEOD," a secret his widow Elizabeth revealed after his 1905 death, and that double authorship — sustained for over a decade, with faked handwriting and a cousin recruited to sign letters — is now the main reason he is studied at all, often in work on gender and Celtic Revival self-invention. The technical definitions still stand exactly: a sharp raises a note a semitone, a double sharp two, and to brace sharp is still to trim the yards as close to the wind as possible, though the sense of "sharps and eddies" for a fast stretch of river has faded from ordinary use.
Written for this edition, 2026.