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...Author. Willa Sibert Cather looks and talks like a kindly, sensible Middle-Western housewife, stout, low-heeled, good at marketing and mending. Her motherly hats are fluttered by no mercurial wings. A spinster, there is nothing old maidish about her comfortable appearance; only her keen blue eyes belie her look of somewhat stolid placidity. Though you would never guess it from her voice she comes from Virginia, but her father moved the family to a Nebraska ranch, near Red Cloud, when she was eight. Instead of going to school she rode her pony around the country, getting acquainted with...
...Raymond McCarl, Author Bess Streeter Aldrich (American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal), General John Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime military instructor, University of Nebraska), Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (lawyer in Lincoln, 1887-94). Sculptor-Painter-Author-Politician John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (went through the public schools). Author Willa Sibert Gather (B.A., U. of Neb.), Baseball Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cinemactor Harold Clayton Lloyd (born in Burchard, Neb.). The State has yet to nominate its two most famed sons for the Nebraska niches in National Statuary Hall at Washington...
...Lect. Hall English 33 New Fogg Lect. Rm. English 75 Emerson J French 6 Prof. Morize, 1 Harvard 5 Prof. Allard, 2 Harvard 5 Mr. Webster, 3 Harvard 6 Mr. Raiche, 4 Harvard 6 Mr. Lincoln, 5 Harvard 3 German 28 Sever 24 Government 16b Beauchamp-Shubow Sever 23 Sibert-Wheeler Sever 24 Greek 2 Sever 30 History 2h Old Fogg Lect. Rm. History 13 Emerson D History 15 Sever 11 History of Science 1 Sever 35 Italian 1 Harvard 2 Mathematics A V Sever 29 Mathematics C V New Lect. Hall Mathematics 24b Sever 29 Mathematics 28 Sever...
...White, K, M, W New Lect. Hall Mr. Winslow, N, X New Lect. Hall Economics 4b Allen-Olsen Geol. Lect. Rm. Richardson-Zorn Semitic Museum 1 Fine Arts 1a New Fogg Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 2b Fogg Mus. German 8 Sever 29 German 24 Emerson D Government 4 Beamer-Sibert Emerson A Sturke-Uncovic Emerson D Greek B 11 Sever 39 History 7 Emerson J Italian 10 Sever 29 Latin 16 Sever 13 Mathematics 2 1 Harvard 3 Mathematics 13 Sever 13 Mineralogy 12 Geol. Mus. 22 Philosophy 3a Emerson D Philosophy 9b Emerson D Psychology 31a Emerson F Slavic...
...Author. Willa Sibert Gather spends months on end riding over her brothers' ranches in the Southwest. Then she buries herself for more months, of writing, in New York. The emotional maturity of her characters, their frequent arrival at or tragic necessity for spiritual self-reliance (see A Lost Lady, The Professor's House), must be a reflection of their author's real acquaintance with solitude. Miss Gather is nearly 50 now; sociable when she likes; vigorous, cheerful, charming. But more and more she is a recluse who, having had experience as country girl (Nebraska), college girl (Nebraska...