Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three other professors will also retire September 1. Milton J. Rosenan, resigning as Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, organized quarantine units in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The George F. Baker professorship of Economics will be vacated by Charles J. Bullock...
Last week Author Wilder surprised many a critic, pleased many a reader. Heaven's My Destination came home and up-to-date with a vengeance. The story of an earnest young U. S. christer's misadventures, it was an able translation of the Wilder talent into current American prose. Instead of Tanagra figurines or Spanish silhouets, the characters were animated U. S. cartoons, drawn with so subtle a line that they seemed more lifelike than comic. As usual in a Wilder story, the philosophic implications were hardly noticeable in the smooth façade of the story...
...Author. Second of five children with a mixed heritage of diplomacy and Presbyterianism, Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wis. (1897), went to China at nine when his father was appointed U. S. Consul-General at Hong Kong, attended school there eight years. Back in the U. S. he finished his formal education at Thacher School, Oberlin College, the Coast Artillery Corps, Yale, where he got his A. B. in 1920. Even as a Yale undergraduate he gave promise of being one of the prize blossoms of the current "literary renaissance," attracted the favorable attention of William Lyon Phelps...
Baldish. a bachelor, with a high, nervous voice. Author Wilder writes like an educated angel, talks like an educated Poll, still feels that he has much to learn...
...Author, Tightlipped, long-faced Mark Van Doren, like his three-year junior, Thornton Wilder (see col. 1), learned his songster's art in the gilded academic cage. But his trial flights have been less bold and less successful than Wilder's. Graduate of his native University of Illinois, a Columbia Ph. D., an assistant professor of English at Columbia, he has confined his extracurricular activities to the literary editorship of the Nation (1924-28). critical studies, books of poems...