Word: owen
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Looking at matters from an undergraduate point of view we can comment but imperfectly upon the article in the last number of the Nation entitled "The College Grindstone." The article is entirely in line with the recent speech delivered by Owen Wister, in which he deplored the lack of American scholars. Its substance is that American teachers are so over-burdened with academic duties that they cannot give the time and energy necessary to individual research, and that American scholarship is sacrificed to instruction...
...Leslie Owen Long...
...annual meeting for the award of academic distinctions, held last night in Sanders Theatre, was very successful, chiefly by reason of Owen Wister's notable speech on "Our Country and the Scholar." Deturs were awarded to about thirty men in the first group who had never before received this form of academic recognition, and the names of the principal prize winners and scholars of the past year were read. The music, by the Doctors' Chorus, was exceptionally fine. They gave the "Winter Song" and the "Comrade Song," both by Bullard, and led in the singing of "Fair Harvard...
Dean Hurlbut, in a brief address, stated the aim of the meeting, and introduced Owen Wister '82 as one who in Undergraduate days was himself a scholar, who won his degree "summa cum laude," with honors in English, philosophy, and music; but dearer by reason of his books, for which all owe a debt of gratitude...
...AWARD OF ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS IN HARVARD COLLEGE. Address by Mr. Owen Wister, A.B., 1882. Sanders Theatre...