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George Riddle, an outsider who had acted with Edwin Booth, portrayed Oedipus. His success in this role was only the first of many he was to receive in the theatre. Curtis Guild, a future Massachusetts Governor, played Tiresias while Owen Wister, later to write The Virginan, was second messenger. J.K. Whittemore, George L. Kittredge, and John Knowles Paine also took part in the production. They were to become a professor of mathematics, a foremost Shakespeare critic, and the founder of the Harvard Music department, respectively...
Since 1900 there has been a small body of fiction-good, bad, and abysmal--that has tried to characterize Harvard and the "Harvard man." Just after the turn of the century, when American letters were still strongly influenced by the Genteel outlook, Owen Wister of Virginian fame wrote a short novel entitled Philosophy 4. In this work two fair-haired, hearty, fun-loving, all-American boys, Bertie and Billy, are contrasted to their supercilious, swarthy, second-generation-American tutor, Oscar Maironi. Bertie and Billy are well-rounded, while Oscar is a grind. The story centers around preparation for a final...
...Fund has been awarded to Jiri Liska 4G for his thesis entitled "The Multiple Equilibrium: A Theory of International Organization of Collective Security," while Dennis E. Brown '55 has won the income from the Maurice Donner Sherman Fund. Edward K. Dunham III '55 has won the income from the Wister Fund as the senior concentrating in Music who has the highest record in his field...
Robert A. Brown '55; Roger S. Cortesi '56; Benjamin H. Heckscher '57; Michael Levinson '55; Charlton MacVeagh, Jr. '57; Robert C. Milton, Jr. '56; Guy Paschal '55; Henry C. Place '57; Bancroft R. Wheeler '55; William R. Wister, Jr. '56 (captain); Wesley B. Smith '55 (manager...
...Paschal '55; William R. Wister, Jr. '55 (captain...