The annual meeting for the award of academic distinctions won during the year 1906-07 will be held in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Dean Hurlbut will preside and will make a brief statement of the purposes of the meeting. The principal address will be delivered by Owen Wister '82, author of "The Virginian" and other well-Known books, on "Our Country and the Scholar."

The Doctors' Chorus of Boston, which sang at the dedication of the Medical School, at the John Harvard anniversary dinner in Memorial, and at other College gatherings, will sing the "Harvard Hymu" and will lead the singing of "Fair Harvard." After the meeting they will sing at the Union, where an informal reception to Mr. Wister will be held, to which all members of the University are invited.

The meetings were established eight years ago by the Faculty as a public recognition of the scholars of the College. Invitations are sent to undergraduate scholars of the first and second groups, the governing boards, the members of the Faculty, to scholars of the first group who have graduated within the last two years, and to a few other; but the meeting is open to all members of the University and to the general public. Among the speakers in former years on the same occasion have been the late Senator George F. Hoar '46, Major Henry L. Higginson h.'82, Judge Francis C. Lowell '76, Rev. Edward Everett Hale '39, Mr. Frederick P. Fish '75, and Hon. Samuel W. McCall.

Seats on the platform will be reserved for members of the Faculty, and those on the floor for scholarship, prize and detur winners, and for former winner of Bowdoin prizes. Seats in the first balcony will be reserved for members of the University and invited guests until 7.55 o'clock, when the public will be admitted. The second balcony will be open to the public throughout.

While in College Mr. Wister was an editor of the CRIMSON and of the Lampoon. He received the degree of the L.L.B. cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1888, and a year later was admitted to the bar. He has travelled extensively throughout the United States, and written many well-known books, among them: "The Dragon of Wantley," "Red Men and White," "LinMcLean," "The Jimmy John Boss," "Ulysses S. Grant: a Biography," "The Virginian," "Philosophy 4," "A Journey in Search of Christmas," "Lady Baltimore," "Mother," and "The Seven Ages of Washington.