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...Owen Wister, author: "A fortnight ago TIME arbitrarily stated that Mr. Harold Bell Wright is the only American author to have a hotel named after one of his fictional characters. Medicine Bow, Wyo., (where certain incidents of my best-known novel are said to have taken place), has named its most elaborate and commodious hotel The Viginian...
...clothed his conception in dramatic form and provided dramatis personae to act the piece. Cecil Rhodes who lured young Americans to England for propaganda purposes is the chief villain, supported in the minor roles by Andrew Carnegie, Lord Northcliffe, Sir Gilbert Parker, Lady Astor, Elihu Root, Owen Wister, Dr. Neilson of Smith, the Sulgrave Institute, the English Speaking Union, the Pilgrim Society, the Sons of St. George. Probably nothing but his artistic sense of the exigencies of the stage prevented the commissioner from adding the names of all American citizens of British ancestry who are not ashamed of their forbears...
Among the editors who have later become prominent in various fields of activity are Messrs. Curtis Guild '81, Thomas William Lamont '92, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, William Roscoe Thayer '81, the late Barrett Wendell '77, and Owen Wister...
...Whitmore's sects New Lect. Hall Mr. Furber's sects New Lect. Hall Mr. Shoup's sects New Lect. Hall Mr. Wells's sects Zool. Lect. rm. Government 7b Emerson J Greek 8 Sever 18 History A2 Andover Lib. History 11 Achorn-Hartman (inclusive) Sever 29 Higgins-Wister (inclusive) Sever 30 History 36 Sever 18 History 51 Andover Mathematics D A-D Sever 32 E-W Sever 35 Mathematics II Sever 32 Mathematics 3 Sever 36 Mathematics 6 Sever 36 Music 1a Emerson A Philosophy 8 Emerson A Physics 4b Emerson J Romance Philol, 5 hf Emerson D Semitic...
...Wister Prize...