Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HEAVEN'S MY DESTINATION - Thornton Wilder-Harper...
Public response to Author Thornton Wilder has been chequered. His first book (The Cabala) was too clever to be popular. His second (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) was the best-selling phenomenon of 1927. Since then he has published a distinguished tour de force (The Woman of Andros), two collections of inconsiderable, unactable playlets (The Angel That Troubled the Waters, The Long Christmas Dinner). Carpers have accused him of being a literary showoff, say he once struck a lucky posture, will never repeat it. Communist Litterateur Mike Gold started the liveliest row the staid New Republic...
Professor Wilder Dwight Bancroft, 67-year-old Cornell University chemist, dislikes doctors as scientists. His immediate reason is that they refuse to concede that he has discovered an elixir of long life, a panacea for insomnia, alcoholism and sciatica, a preventive of "nervous breakdowns," hardening of the arteries and common colds, a cure for manic depressive insanity and epilepsy...
John Harvard's three hundred and twenty-seventh birthday will be celebrated by a special service in the Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church today at 8.45 o'clock this morning, held under the auspices of the Memorial Society. Henry Wilder Foote '97, Minister of the first Unitarian Church, Belmont, will give the commemorative address. A Baccalaureate Hymn, written by Lionel DeJersey Harvard, a lineal descendant of John Harvard, for his own Commencement in 1915, will be sung at the conclusion of the service after which the members of the Memorial Society will place a wreath on the John Harvard...
...celebration, which has been arranged under the direction of Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37, of the Memorial Society, will consist of a sermon on John Harvard given by Henry Wilder Foote '27, a prayer, and the singing of the hymn "Old Hundred," and "Fair Harvard." Following the services the members of the society will place a wreath on the John Harvard statue. All members of the University are invited to these commemorative services...