Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there be any doubt that the literary situation at Harvard, as regards undergraduate effort, is badly in need of re-vivification? For several years the Advocate has consistently failed to live up to its splendid traditions and unequalled opportunities. The shades of Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Sheldon, Biggers, Hagedorn, Ficke, and others, have hovered in vain. At their best we have had only dilettantism; at their worst puerility; and throughout this period of decadence a continual subservience to the vapid social and political aims of the editors. And by some irony of Fate this paper has lived when the Monthly...
Recent dispatches from France report the decoration with the croix de guerre of Private Richard Van Wyck Buel '18, of Section 642 of the U.S.A. Ambulance Corps. Buel received the cross for bravery under fire in an engagement on the Aisne during the last week of February. He was sent to the front-line trenches, it is said, to rescue men suffering from an unusually severe gas attack, and was wounded by a German shell while in performance of his duty. He was awarded the medal while in the base hospital on March...
Aaron Davis Weld '18, of Boston, has been appointed second assistant manager of the University tennis team, and Richard van Wyck Buel, of New York, N. Y., manager of the University second team subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee...
...Lampoon announces the election of Jacob Bates Abbott '18, of Dedham; Richard van Wyck Buel '18, of Ridgefield, Conn.; John Lavalle, Jr., '18, of Boston; and Robert Perry Rodgers '17, of Havre de Grace, Md., to the editorial board. Ralph Gascoigne Brown '18, of New York, N. Y., Cyril Malcolm Hollander '18, of Boston; John Lester Hubbard '18, of Providence, R. I.; Felix Whitman Knauth '18, of New York, N. Y., and Francis Beaman Todd '18, of Boston, have been elected business editors...
...Rose, a chorus lady, F. W. Hubbell 1G.B. Miss May Belle, another, J. A. Cook '13 Charles Blowman, a manager, G. S. Silsbee '13 Antonello Sanchez, a villain, S. Nichols '13 J. Augustus Wyman, a plutocrat, H. C. Everett '13 Elinor Wyman, his daughter, V. Freedley '14 Frederick Van Wyck Fortescue, a boy hero, P. M. Hollister '13 Barrett Booth Dustifoot, a trajedian, J. K. Hodges '14 Washington Bagley, a janitor, J. A. Milholland '14 Zachariah Hay, the country boy, L. H. Mills '14 Minnie Hay, the country girl, A. F. Sortwell '14 Herr Hohenzollern, a ranch master...