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...reports of the death of Owen Wister '82 which appeared in many of the New York and Boston papers of Friday evening and in the CRIMSON of Saturday morning have since been found to have been erroneous. Mr. Wister is in excellent health, the report of his death being caused by his absence on a short hunting trip...
...well-known reply of Mark Twain after reading his own obituary might well be repeated by Owen Wister. In truth both reports "were grossly exaggerated." Also the fact that the noted author is a former members of the CRIMSON board made the "story" of his death in Saturday's issue partake somewhat of the humorous. However, we leave it to our valued contemporary (with which Mr. Wister was, we are told, "affiliated") to smooth out the crumpled galley sheets and draw thereon a lively cartoon. We would suggest some appropriate scene from that best of Harvard College tales. "Philosophy...
...Owen Wister '82, one of the best known graduates of the University in the field of letters, died in Cleveland, O., yesterday at the age of fifty-one years...
...Owen Wister prepared for College at St. Paul's School in Concord, and was graduated from Harvard in 1882. Immediately after his graduation he went abroad with the idea of studying for a musical career, but ill health caused his return to this country, and after two years of life on the western plains, he entered the Harvard Law School in 1885. From this he was graduated in 1888 with the degrees of LL.B. and A.M. While in College he was a member of both the CRIMSON and Lampoon boards...
...general public. Among the speakers in former years on the same occasion have been the late Senator George Frisbie Hoar '46, Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, Judge Francis C. Lowell '76, the late Rev. Edward Everett Hale '39, Mr. Frederick P. Fish '75, Hon. Samuel W. McCall, Mr. Owen Wister '82, and President Hadley h.'99, of Yale University...