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...subject of congratulation for Harvard that its graduates are attaining success in that most difficult field, the writing of plays. The University looks with pride upon the achievements of such men as Edward Sheldon and Vaughn Moody, and upon the stamp of popular approval which was put upon "Salvation Nell" and "The Great Divide." The fact that John Frederick Ballard, a second year graduate student in 1911-12, has this year won the Craig Prize, is extremely satisfactory from Harvard's view point. Indeed, there seems to be a general quickening of interest in the theatre. It is with pleasure...
...most distinguished Harvard playwrights, Knoblauch, of '96, although he won no scholastic distinction, was well known to all who knew him as a deep and thorough student of the drama. Edward Sheldon, of 1908, took his degree magna cum laude, and is in the Phi Beta Kappa. William Vaughn Moody, '93, author of "The Great Divide", which has many claims to be the best play ever written in America, took his degree magna cum laude, gained honorable mention in English, and was in the Phi Beta Kappa. Of the three men from different colleges now most prominently mentioned as candidates...
...Nigger", and "Salvation Nell" have been very marked successes. E. G. Knoblauch '96 has also produced a play in New York. In connection with these it is almost needless to mention the dramas of Percy MacKaye '97, especially "The Scarecrow", produced in 1910, and "The Faith-healer" of William Vaughn Moody...
...line-ups: HARVARD 1914. EXETER. Wingate, 3b. r.f., Brickly Harvey, 2b. 1b., Fox Reynolds, c. c.f., Vaughn Clark, s.s. l.f., Frye Milholland, 1b. c., Foley Perkins, c.f. 2b., Perkins Randall, r.f. s.s., Low Bettle, l.f. 3b., Taylor Boyle, p. p., Donovan
...William Vaughn Moody '93 died in Colorado Springs, Colorado, yesterday morning. For some year he has been in poor health. He was born in Spencer, Indiana, July 18, 1869, and was graduated from Harvard with the class of 1893. In the following year he received the A.M. degree. From 1895 to 1901 he was instructor in English and Rhetoric at Harvard, after which he went to the University of Chicago as assistant professor of English literature...