Thursday, January 9, 2025

Wm. White to Speak at Weil Lecture, April, 1925

Weil Lectures Will Be Given by Wm. White. . . Popular Kansas Editor and Publicist Secured by Lecture Committee. . . To Lecture in April. . . Announcement Will Probably Carry Much Interest to Lovers of Letters and Literature

An announcement of great interest to the University and the State is that the Weil Lectures in April no less distinguished and interesting person that William Allen White, perhaps America’s most popular editor and publicist. Mr. White’s latest volume is a remarkable interpretation of Woodrow Wilson published by Houghton Mifflin Company and lifts Mr. White a notch higher in the list of American letters and literature. So well is the volume written that one sits down and tends to read it from beginning to end as an absorbing story of personalities and social color. His interpretation of the South as a molding influence on Mr. Wilson is not only comprehensive but beautiful.

Mr. White is, of course, known as the vigorous editor of the Emporia Gazette, and a long list of best sellers, including a volume from MacMillan in the last few months on politics and citizenship. But perhaps his recent campaign for Governor of Kansas on an independent ticket, his vigorous writings on current problems, and his fine personality will be the things which appeal to those who are fortunate enough to hear him at Chapel Hill, to read his articles in The Journal of Social Forces and his final volume published by the University of North Carolina Press.

It is hoped that so stimulating a personality and so clear-cut thinking will interest the students of the University and break through their static lack of interest in matters of intense social interest in which the state at large is both interesting and progressive.

From the front page of The Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday, January 10, 1925

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