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...sang at the dedication of the Medical School, at the John Harvard anniversary dinner in Memorial, and at other College gatherings, will sing the "Harvard Hymu" and will lead the singing of "Fair Harvard." After the meeting they will sing at the Union, where an informal reception to Mr. Wister will be held, to which all members of the University are invited...
While in College Mr. Wister was an editor of the CRIMSON and of the Lampoon. He received the degree of the L.L.B. cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1888, and a year later was admitted to the bar. He has travelled extensively throughout the United States, and written many well-known books, among them: "The Dragon of Wantley," "Red Men and White," "LinMcLean," "The Jimmy John Boss," "Ulysses S. Grant: a Biography," "The Virginian," "Philosophy 4," "A Journey in Search of Christmas," "Lady Baltimore," "Mother," and "The Seven Ages of Washington...
Following are reviews of the two latest works of Owen Wister '82, who will speak at the meeting for the award of academic distinctions this evening...
Seventy-five years ago, the "dignity of history" necessitated the portrayal of Washington as a man of frigid formality; nowadays, popularizers seek to strip the Father of his Country and show that he possessed many of the worst attributes of erring hamanity. Mr. Owen Wister has down neither of these things. He has given us a life-like representation of Washington, setting forth the kindliness of his character and showing that his greatness lay not in lacking human passions, but in controlling them, except on those rare occasions when to have done so would have been more than human...
...pleasantness anecdote and the newest which Mr. Wister has set before his readers is that of the visit of Jeremiah Smith to Mount Vernon and the kindly hospitality with which Washington received him, and, when the time for retiring came, escorted him to his room, pointed to the blazing fire with the reassuring remark that it was the perfectly safe and bade his guest good-night with the permission to keep his light burning until morning if he wished. Mr. Smith notes the awe with which the master of Mount Vernon impressed him, but Mr. Wister explains that this...