Word: wister
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON's history,, was one of the reasons for the gradual swing of the contents of the CRIMSON away from literary essays and poems to matters of the day. Although the fortnightly CRIMSON contained among its editorial boards such names as William Roscoe Thayer, Robert Bacon, and Owen Wister, it had its narrowest escape from extinction in 1882, nine years after its birth. Financially on the rocks, the CRIMSON was all but ready to surrender and be absorbed by its rival; only by a margin of one vote was the merger project defeated...
Harvard has had its share of misguided Freshmen as many chronicles by graduates have delighted in revealing. Owen Wister and the authors of "Little Codfish Cabot" together with a host of others loss recent have detailed the vagaries of Freshman foibles. One of the typical stories told relates the experience of one newly entered student who found himself "rushed by the biggest club in the college", as he wrote his parents. The club it was revealed, was the Harvard Union...
...better proof of the value of CRIMSON training could be offered than by citing the names of former editors. Joseph Clark Grew, T. W. Lamont, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ambassador Haughton, Melville E. Stone, William Roscoe Thayer, and Owen Wister are only examples of former CRIMSON editors who have succeeded after college. The training that is offered by any of the departments not only possesses all the advantages of any extra-curricular activity, but in the opportunity to interview prominent men, in the varied type of work involved, and in the contacts with every branch of college activity and life which...
...Harte". He has also written numerous articles for the Atlantic Monthly, the Century, and other magazines. Mr. Merwin is one of a group of widely known men who were connected with the CRIMSON in its early years. Barrett Wendell '77. William Roscoe Thayer '81, Josiah Quincy '80, and Owen Wister '82 were all at various times members of the Board in the first seven or eight years of the CRIMSON's existence...
Girls--S. F. Collier '26, F. V. Crane '25, Russell Dewart '25, N. S. Hesse '27, R. L. Pruyn '27, J. O. Rosecrans '27, W. R. Wister '27, Austin Wood...