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The tablet to be dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt records that here "Harvard's greatest alumnus" spent "four formative and fruitful years," a verdict in which all but a few will concur. But the voice of the cynic and the iconoclast will make itself heard, inquiring whether after all Roosevelt's...
Of his work. " I consider that the principal aim of my mission is to make the American people understand what Italy is and what are her aims and ideals. The necessity of this has been proved by recent events. Erroneous news and malevolent interpretations have been flashed all over the...
New York Tribune: "It belongs with Hough's Covered Wagon, Miss Gather's One of Ours, the earlier studies of Garland and other of our sturdy native writers. . . ."
The English are more conservative, and their traditions are deeeper rooted than ours. Consequently their Universities are enjoying a longer immunity from the sweep and rush of modern conditions. But they will succumb".
The Author. Willa (Sibert) Cather was born December 7, 1876. Virginian by birth she is Middle-Western by adoption and bringing-up. She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, was once employed on the Pittsburgh Daily Leader and later became associate editor of McClure's Magazine. For...