Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Literary fame came to Mrs. Sullivan in 1902 with the publication by Harper and Brothers of her novel, "Out of the West", which told the story of the struggle of the grange against the railroads. For 20 years she was a feature writer for Chicago newspapers. Her activities in Chicago awakened her desire for writing of a more creative nature. She came to Cambridge where she studied in the 47 Workshop during the last year of the administration of Professor G. P. Baker '87. "The Strongest Man", her first play, was produced at Agassiz House in 1925, and was published...
...knows how many sick, mangled and dead people have been brought into the admitting ward. Since 1902 the number has been 1,442,747. Another 1,750,000 have gone in for minor injuries. When an amateur writer shot Novelist David Graham Phillips in 1911, an ambulance took the body from a sidewalk near the old Princeton club and carried it to the admitting ward...
...There are, however, two colleges that do not arrange their curriculums on these lines. (The writer has been dwelling on the absence of an adequate freedom of choice in course selections in certain colleges.) They are probably the foremost educational institutions of the country, Columbia and Harvard...
...topic of Mr. Hamilton's speech will be "The Trend of Contemporary Drama." Mr. Hamilton, a writer and lecturer on the Stage, and Professor of Dramatics at Columbia, in his many books has not confined his attention to the present period but has ranged all the way from Aeschylus to Eugene O'Neill and from Aristophanes to George M. Cohan. Four of his volumes of dramatic criticism are published in a uniform series by Henry Holt and Company; these are "The Theory of the Theatre," "Studies in Stagecraft," "Problems of the Playwright," and "Seen on the Stage." His most recent...
...Hamilton, who has been recognized for 20 years as one of the foremost American authorities on the drama, has been equally successful as a writer and as a lecturer...