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...home. There he has produced, besides beef and horses, short stories and poetry of high literary merit and quiet wisdom. Lately he bought an estate in South Carolina but it was to the Tetons of Wyoming that he returned when his old friend and professor, Dr. Henry van Dyke, asked for a book about mountains...
...smallest freshmen, in traditional oldtime professorial garb--old brown overcoat, brown suit, felt hat far down over generous ears. But on a Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia), the Burges Johnson (late of Vassar), of Harvard. The amazingly flexible voice, its sympathies and humor its clarity, expression and power of creating reality out of written words, bespeaks "Copey" as not only a most popular and learned professor but a great master as well...
...smallest freshman, in traditional oldtime professorial garb-old brown overcoat, brown suit, felt hat far down over generous ears. But on a Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia), the Bur-ges Johnson (late of Vassar), of Harvard. The amazingly flexible voice, its sympathies and humor, its clarity, expression and power of creating reality out of written words, bespeaks "Copey" as not only a most popular and learned professor but a great master as well...
Distinguished gentlemen, dan gling golden keys from their watch-chains, made pilgrimage into his toric Virginia, to listen at Williamsburg to the mellow accents of Dr. Henry van Dyke, Princeton poet-patriarch; to hear a sweet-voweled memorial poem by Dr. John Erskine of Columbia (author, The Private Life of Helen of Troy and Galahad) ; to attend the prophetic utterance of Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing, president emeritus of Western Reserve University and president of Phi Beta Kappa, who dedicated before the gathering that scholarly brotherhood's $100,000 memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary...
...should be leveled to the ground." So voted the Oxford Union, debating society, last week, 223 to 198. While Phi Beta Kappa men were packing their bags to go to William & Mary where, this week, they celebrate the 150th anniversary of their founding; while majestic little Dr. Henry van Dyke was writing, in Princeton, the speech which he will deliver to his brother Phi Betas, an interesting item appeared in the press. Half of Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa men this year are Jews-five of the eight juniors elected, and a large portion of the 22 seniors. Despite...