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...Unicorn of the Georges. Four years before the British burned the U. S. Capitol, John Kirkland began his brilliant presidency of Harvard (1810-28) which gave the University its Law and Divinity schools, turned out such ornaments of U. S. Literature as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Hickling Prescott, George Bancroft. At their heels came Oliver Wendell Holmes (Class of 1829), Henry David Thoreau and Richard Henry Dana (Class of 1837). The unbridgeable, bloody chasm between the Northern and Southern traditions was nowhere more evident than in the quiet incredulity with which Henry Adams regarded the son of Robert Edward...
Also on the program will be Bancroft Beatley, President of Simmons College, and Eugene Randolph Smith, Headmaster of the Beaver Country Day School...
Over 300 books and pamphlets relating to the "South Sea Bubble" of the years following 1710, have been given to the Business School. They constitute the collection of the late Hugh Bancroft '97, who died in 1932, and were presented by Mrs. Bancroft in accordance with the wishes of her husband, although no specific bequest was contained in the will...
...Bancroft was publisher of the Wall Street Journal and Barron's Weekly, besides being president of the Boston News Bureau and the Cohasset National Bank...
...Obviously the Bancroft Collection is a jewel of exceptional quality. The Library and the School may well consider themselves fortunate in receiving such a splendid addition to their assembly of material relating to business history...