Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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A delegation representing 100 former students of Professor Frank W. Taussig '79, of the Economics Department, presented him with a beautiful silver bowl on Saturday as a token of their esteem and affection. The bowl is a replica of one made by Paul Revere in the 18th century and now...
The prose is on the whole better than the verse. The anonymous "Note on Carlyle," whether its doctrine is acceptable or not, shows competence and vigor. Mr. Fisher's "Lanky" is an unusually good story, exhibiting in a small space some skill in plot, character, setting and surprise. Mr. Scholle...
The retirement of Barrett Wendell from active professional duties at Harvard means the loss of all those forces for the advancement of learning which go into the making of any college "celebrity." A professor may become that figure by the possession of a unique personality or of a few striking...
"When one of us dies," again says Professor Palmer, "his colleagues mourn, not for the public loss alone, but for their own much more, each sharing with each such bits of remembrance as illustrate the beauty and excellence of the absent friend. In the family journal of Harvard I would...
President Lowell, in addressing 150 members of the Freshman class at the special service in Appleton Chapel last night discussed the problem of the relation of religion to the life that is worth while. The problems of life grow more serious as life goes on, and it is hard to...