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...Memorial Gate has been begun within the last few days. The structure is the gift of the late Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes who bequeathed to her nephew, Mr. I. N. Phelps Stokes, the architect, a sum of money to be expended in erecting at Harvard a memorial to her ancestor, Governor Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
...philosophy in Harvard University, a teacher who holds his students by scholarship of living power, a clear thinker of calm meditative tone, a student of ethics with a deep grasp on that theistic truth which underlies all righteousness, a literary artist--fit editor of the poems of his spiritual ancestor, George Herbert; his refinement in style, whether in philosophy or literature being no mere fastidiousness, but the reflex of refined thought, a philosopher in the original sense, widely influential for good and imbued with a tranquil enthusiasm for truth which gives substance and worth to all his work...
...Great Britain, a post which President Everett himself had previously filled. In that letter President Everett asked Mr. Bancroft to deliver some books--including a set of Quincy's "History of Harvard"--to Rev. John Harvard of Plymouth, England, whom President Everett spoke of as "a Wesleyan clergyman whose ancestor at the beginning of the seventeenth century was a brother of our founder." It may be remarked in passing that the commission was faithfully executed, and the books are still in the possession of the family of which Lionel Harvard is a member...
Stronger than all--perhaps because including all--is the true and honest wholesomeness of the play. A keen judge has called Heywood an Elizabethan ancestor of Col. Newcome; and the spirit of the courteous and well-bred qualities is strong and full in "The Fair Maid of the West." The play is thus genuinely a revival, for it is given practically intact. So invigorating is the courageous, open-air climate that even the most arrant coward is shamed out of his cowardice into as energetic courage; the returning Captain Goodlack, who is much tempted to gainful villany, is too conscious...
...plot is based on the adventures of two young Americans, John Beacon Winton, of Boston, and James McGraw, of "Anywhere." In the prologue Winton boasts of his "Mayflower" descent. By means of a wishing stone, the two men are transported back to 1620 at Plymouth, and meet their own ancestors, face to face. Winston finds that his forefather, of whom he has been boasting, is a common porter and an "undesirable citizen." He is shocked, and attempts to make out his own destiny by disguising his ancestor and introducing him as the governor of a neighboring settlement; and then tries...