Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...point of view the meeting tonight commands attention. Even among the host of lecturers who address us, Mr. Wister stands out as a man who distinctly appeals to under graduates, and it will be a pleasure to listen to a Harvard graduate who is a successful and typically American author...
...award of academic distinctions won during the year 1906-07 will be held in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Dean Hurlbut will preside and will make a brief statement of the purposes of the meeting. The principal address will be delivered by Owen Wister '82, author of "The Virginian" and other well-Known books, on "Our Country and the Scholar...
...permission to keep his light burning until morning if he wished. Mr. Smith notes the awe with which the master of Mount Vernon impressed him, but Mr. Wister explains that this was the inevitable result of long preoccupation in official affairs. It is greatly to be desired that the author of "The Virginian" might give us a portrayal of the characters of Franklin and Lincoln as true to life as is this one of Washington. EDWARD CHANNING...
Ephemeral as the stock-market quotations which lend humor to the situations, and as slender as the broker's tape out of which the plot is spun, Mr. Owen Wister's little story of "Mother" is nevertheless not unworthwhile. On these few genial pages, the author's touch is light and graceful; and if one cares for a moral, there is perhaps, one to be found. Not the least amusing part of the story is that "Mother" turns out to be--but this is infringing on Mr. Wister's copyright. P. A. HUTCHISON...
...came to this country, and in 1881 graduated from Harvard College. In 1895 he received from the University the honorary degree of S.T.D. He occupied the position of University preacher from 1886 to 1890, and is now a member of the Board of Overseers. He is the author of "The Witness to Immortality," "The Christ of Today," and "Immortality and the New Theodicy...