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...signs himself "Van N," is intelligent and spirited, but scarcely contemporary. The reviews, as routine, may be allowed to pass. "The Scottish Players" is thin anecdote, defensible if the manuscripts in the upper right-hand drawer are few. Alone of all this, the parody of Synge by Mr. McVeagh has excuse for its ink. As this...
April 13.--"Business Standards," by Hon. Franklin McVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington...
...Columbia will give a dinner at Sherry's, Fifth Avenue and 14th Street, New York, to the delegates of the conference, on Tuesday evening, December 30. The speakers at the dinner will be President Eliot of Harvard, President Hadley of Yale, Mr. James W. Alexander, and Hon. Wayne McVeagh. The dinner will be open to all alumni of the universities included in the membership of the Association. Tickets, at five dollars each, may be obtained upon application at the Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia Clubs, of New York City of from B. D. Woodward, Chairman of the Dinner Committee, Columbia...
...class of 1853 at Yale graduated the following distinguished men: Ex. President Andrew F. White of Cornell; Justice Shiras of the United States Supreme Court bench; G. W. Smalley and J. H. Bromely of the Tribune, Edmund Clarence Steadman, Wayne McVeagh, Theodore West, the novelist; Benjamin K. Phelps, ex-district attorney of New York County; Senator Gibson, and the late President G. H. Watson of the New Haven Railroad...
...McVeagh entered college as a ninety-three special. After graduating he intended to study law in Philadelphia, and gave promise of making a brilliant success in his profession. In athletics he was fond of baseball and cricket, having played on the latter team since he entered college and being captain of it this year. He was a member of many social clubs, among others the D. K. E. the Pudding, and the Delta...