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...Author. Events in the life of Willa Sibert Gather in no way reflect her steady growth from a college-girl reporter on the Pittsburgh Daily Leader to a deanship in American letters. Born of Virginian parents 49 years ago, she grew up in Nebraska, attending that state's university. From the Leader, she went to creative Writing, helped edit McClure's Magazine from 1906-12. She did not marry, but her literary offspring appeared at regular intervals, each more admirable than the last, until One of Ours took the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. In her quiet New York apartment...
...Board of Overseers at their meeting yesterday morning voted to confirm the election of Dr. H. A. Christian A.M. '03, as successor to W. L. Richardson M.D., who resigned last year the deanship of the Harvard Medical School, after more than a year's deliberation. Dr. Christian was elected by the President and Fellows at their meeting on October 12, and as there were remarkable opportunities offered by the enlarged endowment and splendid equipment of the school, the choice was awaited with an unusual amount of interest. They realized that a man was needed who not only would bring...
When the town fell, he withdrew to his deanship at Ireland, embraced the Irish cause, and hurled her rage and wrongs against England. It was at this time that his "Gulliver's Travels" appeared. - beautiful, vivacious, intense in realization and grotesque in combination. Yet, though his best-known work, it is not his most meritorious nor his worst representative...
Professor Smith has taken this step in order to spend more time upon the duties of his Professorship. Two years ago he determined to give up his Deanship, but was induced to delay his resignation until this year so that the new system might be got well under way. He has held the office longer than any other man. If the man who is chosen to fill the office proves to be so fully in sympathy with the students as Professor Smith has been, the undergraduates may consider themselves very well...
...financial reasons, our faculty entertained the hope that Prof. Dunbar, on his return next year, would be able to conduct the three course that are now given. President Eliot never shared this hope, and realized that although Prof. Dunbar would be free from all duties connected with the deanship, still he would not be able to give the necessary time to such extended instruction, and to do justice to such important studies. Therefore it can be positively stated that the three regular courses in Political Economy, so popular this year, will be given next year, and will be as ably...