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...years ago these Independents had their first show. Having survived the cannonade of laughter that welcomed them, they proceeded, under the chaperonage of John Sloan, to exhibit year after year a freakish rout of paintings wilder than any parade of camels and elephants. The entire roof of the Waldorf is theirs to use; anyone who has painted anything can exhibit it there, and painters as remote from convention as sword-swallower, snake charmer, bearded ladies, send in their works-and are laughed at. And many of those who roused the stormiest guffaws ten years ago are now selling their canvases...
...following were appointed to the Prom Committee: John Randolph Burke of Milton, Chairman; Cecil Irton Wylde of Boston and Leo Francis Daley of Andover, vice-chairmen; Clement Duane Coady of West Newton; Henry Wilder Foote of Boston; Walter Rockwell Gherardi of Chevy Chase, Md.; Courtlandt Sherrington Gross of West Newton; Sarrell Everett Gleason of Evanston, III.; Samuel Haydock Hallowell of Readville; Carl Gustave Ture Lundell of Dorchester; John Schuyler Malick of Cincinnati, O.; Robert Allen Pinkerton of New York City; John Livermore Prescott of Norwood; Howard Slade of Cambridge; and Henry Sewall Woodbridge of Brookline...
...Boston, one John Wilder, 80, Vermont fiddler, did not hesitate to blazon far and wide that he is an uncle of President Coolidge. He announced that he had read of the exploits of "Mellie" Dunham, famed "fiddler-to-Ford," and is prepared to play for the fiddling championship of New England. A few credulous, unmusical reporters were impressed when Mr. Wilder displayed his violin. "I tell you it's nearly 100 years...
Numerals for Freshman cross-country were awarded to J. O. Wilder '29, who placed among the first three in the Harvard Yale meet. A. S. Wooworth '29, J. W. Downing '29, W. R. McLaurin '29, and F. J. Mumford '29, manager, were awarded...
...Burt Green Wilder, born in 1841, was graduated from Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard) in 1862 in anatomia summa cum laude. He served in the Civil War as surgeon of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry (colored). Afterward he became curator of herpetology for the Boston Society of Natural History, professor of neurology and vertebrate zoology at Cornell. He was a member of the advisory council of the Simplified Spelling Board, Vice President of the Non-Smokers Protective League, etc., etc. He wrote the only article that ever appeared in the Atlantic Monthly with illustration-the story of how he reeled 150 yards...