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...Elmira Bears (rhymes with cheers) put in months at nightmarish service in France. After the Armistice, she stayed on for seven months as chief nurse for Herbert Hoover's relief commission to Belgium. Back in the U.S., she continued her career until 1925, when she married Homer Wickenden, a social-welfare official...
Young Canadian technicians will be needed in the U.S. after the war, a U.S. educator declared last week, because so many students in U.S. technical schools have been drafted or put into war work. President William E. Wickenden of Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science told the University of Toronto's Engineering Society that the U.S. supply of engineers has suffered a depletion it will take years to replace. Noting that Canada's future engineers have been better safeguarded, he cried: "Come over and help...
Those who are most vocal want you to whoop it up, not to think it out. I plead for strength before we bait the bear." >At Cooper Union (Manhattan), Case School's President William Elgin Wickenden told graduates: "The decades of illusion and self-indulgence are over. Your generation may never know security of wealth, of employment, perhaps even of life itself." >Owen D. Young (at Syracuse): "I cannot say that the insistent cry of youth today-jobs, not war'-is wrong, but I can say that unless you are prepared for the second you may never have...
Twenty-seven-year-old Dan Wickenden tells this story with the calm abundance, accomplishment and promise of one kind of natural-born writer. He tells it so well that his work bids for serious as well as genial examination...
...with absolute statement. Walk Like a Mortal, engaging though it is, cannot and wisely does not try to lay claim to either. Its perceptions are safe and uncritical. It is nicely written: yet it would be hard to find a definitive sentence in it. In appraisal of talented Dan Wickenden it is instructive to recall another book by and about another young man; James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (see p. 86). Joyce could never have written Walk Like a Mortal: even as a young man, he understood too much...