Word: owens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual meeting for the award of academic distinctions won during the year 1906-07 will be held in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Dean Hurlbut will preside and will make a brief statement of the purposes of the meeting. The principal address will be delivered by Owen Wister '82, author of "The Virginian" and other well-Known books, on "Our Country and the Scholar...
Following are reviews of the two latest works of Owen Wister '82, who will speak at the meeting for the award of academic distinctions this evening...
Seventy-five years ago, the "dignity of history" necessitated the portrayal of Washington as a man of frigid formality; nowadays, popularizers seek to strip the Father of his Country and show that he possessed many of the worst attributes of erring hamanity. Mr. Owen Wister has down neither of these things. He has given us a life-like representation of Washington, setting forth the kindliness of his character and showing that his greatness lay not in lacking human passions, but in controlling them, except on those rare occasions when to have done so would have been more than human...
Ephemeral as the stock-market quotations which lend humor to the situations, and as slender as the broker's tape out of which the plot is spun, Mr. Owen Wister's little story of "Mother" is nevertheless not unworthwhile. On these few genial pages, the author's touch is light and graceful; and if one cares for a moral, there is perhaps, one to be found. Not the least amusing part of the story is that "Mother" turns out to be--but this is infringing on Mr. Wister's copyright. P. A. HUTCHISON...
...AWARD OF ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS IN HARVARD COLLEGE. Address by Mr. Owen Wister, A.B., 1882. Sanders Theatre...