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...Author. Events in the life of Willa Sibert Gather in no way reflect her steady growth from a college-girl reporter on the Pittsburgh Daily Leader to a deanship in American letters. Born of Virginian parents 49 years ago, she grew up in Nebraska, attending that state's university. From the Leader, she went to creative Writing, helped edit McClure's Magazine from 1906-12. She did not marry, but her literary offspring appeared at regular intervals, each more admirable than the last, until One of Ours took the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. In her quiet New York apartment...
...sleek, kindly horses-a white and a chestnut- followed a young woman up a runway to a diving platform. Below, an announcer was explaining how these Percherons had never been shod with iron to pull men's burdens, but as foals followed their dams over water-drops that grew as they acquired boldness, how lumps of sugar had substituted for whips in their training. On the runway, 60 feet up, the horses whinnied softly, and pushed their noses at electric light bulbs which they mistook for golden pears. A girl touched the leader on the flank. The horse stretched...
...been graduated, Sam Rosenbaum, no man to underrate his abilities, saw no reason why succeeding classes should deminish for want of his services. Not only did he see a fat living in it. He was "a good Yale man." And as the tutoring classes he conducted around examination times grew with the years in size and fame, he constituted himself "brain coach" to many a thick-witted Yale athlete, gratis...
...school prepares you for the University, so the University offers you priceless opportunities to lay the foundations upon which in later life you will build your castles," said the Honorable Joseph C. Grew '02, Under Secretary of State, in an address Saturday evening at an informal meeting of the Class of 1929 in the Union. He continued...
...better proof of the value of CRIMSON training could be offered than by citing the names of former editors. Joseph Clark Grew, T. W. Lamont, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ambassador Haughton, Melville E. Stone, William Roscoe Thayer, and Owen Wister are only examples of former CRIMSON editors who have succeeded after college. The training that is offered by any of the departments not only possesses all the advantages of any extra-curricular activity, but in the opportunity to interview prominent men, in the varied type of work involved, and in the contacts with every branch of college activity and life which...