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From this number seven new members of the Board of Overseers will be elected at Commencement: five for the full term of six years; and two others to fill the vacancies caused by the deaths of William DeWitt Hyde '79 and Evert Jansen Wendell '82, whose terms would have expired, respectively, in 1921 and 1920. The total number of ballots received in this postal ballot, which has been carried on during the past two months, was 4,518, of which 102 were invalid. Last year the corresponding figures were...
...John Harmon, W. Butterfield Uc. Philip Harmon, H. H. Clark Eleanor Woodbridge, Miss Edith Noyes Gerald Lord, J. T. C. McNamara '20 Anne Lord, Miss Constance Flood, 1916 Cynthia Woodbridge (Eleanor's daughter), Miss Agnes Johnston Ashton Delafield (John's stepson), J. L. Hotson '20 Thomas Woodbridge, T. Loudon Evert Traft, Professor Baker
...number of new books and photographs relating chiefly to the theatre are now being received by the Library from the collection of Evert Jansen Wendell '82, who died last year in France in addition to the books received, several thousands of prints and playbills have been received and have been added to the University's collection...
...When Evert Wendell died on August 27, 1917, in the hospital at Neuilly, France, he left his entire literary collection to the Library. The present instalment is the first advantage that has been taken of the gift. The collection, which still remains at the disposal of the University, is very extensive and valuable...
Cheerfulness is a virtue ordinarily so difficult of achievement in these days that the editor of the Graduates' Magazine must be congratulated on the optimistic tone of the March number. The note is struck in Mr. Wister's sketch of the late Evert Jansen Wendell, in which the great-hearted "perpetual undergraduate" is depicted wart and all. The secret of Wendell's personality was an abiding youthfulness or, to use Mr. Wister's phrase, an innocence that "never shrank from its full original stature." Like all youths he was swept ahead by enthusiasms, sometimes to the detriment of social conventions...