Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
Hubert Osborn, Sp.,'s "The Readjustment" is the most mature and subtle of the plays. "Free Speech," by W. L. Prosser '18, is a farce on the present Russian situation; "Dayspring," by J. F. Froome, Sp., is a poetic sketch about a man who has committed a murder, but who is finally saved by the testimony of a doctor...
...order that undergraduates may understand the purposes of Phi Beta Kappa, and the requirements for election to it, the following sketch of the society's history and ideals is pointed...
...short biographical sketch of the late Charles W. Harkness of New York City, in whose memory the quadrangle was given, and the formal speech of President Hadley in accepting the prospective group of buildings comprised the chief events of the program. The invocation was given by Dean Charles W. Brown of the Yale School of Religion and the corner-stone was laid by Edward H. Harkness of New York, brother of the former New York business man to whom the buildings are to be a memorial. He was assisted in the formal setting of the stone in place by James...
...memorial biographical sketch of the late Charles W. Harkness was given by Horace D. Taft, principal of the Taft School at Watertown, Conn., a classmate of Charles W. Harkness and secretary of the Yale class of 1883. Members of the class were especially invited guests at the laying of the corner-stone, the other guests including members of the Yale Corporation, Mayor Campner, Mayor elect Fitzgerald and other city officials of New Haven, members of the committee on plans for university development, deans and directors of the various schools at Yale, and professors in Yale...