Word: barrett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highly picturesque and significant mediaeval document, not without its spots of beauty--as, for example, in the bit about the dream of two doves, who "uttered again and again the sighs customary to doves, as if talking together." As the final bit of Barrett Wendell's abundant writing, acomplished at Portsmouth and in the Boston Athenaeum during the last summer and autumn (1920) of his life it gains something of interest from the fact, not imparted with other items of information on the "jacket," that Wendell, dubious about the willingness of any publisher to bring it out, handed...
...permitted at the same time to wonder what the scrupulous teacher of English would have said to the final sentence in the publishers' remarks on the jacket: "Typographically the book will be welcome to all who care for fine printing since the type was arranged by Bruce Rogers." Barrett Wendell may even be imagined as asking, with a twinkle in his eye, what reception is to be expected from those who cared for fine printing before the type was arranged by Bruce Rogers...
...virtues, to be "on terms of intimacy with all recent graduates who are likely to be able to give money ... on some sort of terms with nearly every recent graduate, except perhaps purely domestic Jews and Irish." Mr. Whitney was pictured, in a study made illustrious by the late Barrett Wendell, as an "electric person" to whom all manner of Harvard officials, from the President down, enter for weighty conference or valued advice. Of Mr. Whitney the pamphleteer cried: "What meteoric rise is this! . . . All the requisites but age, and President Lowell does not resign...
...fullback and D. I. Waterman, a tackle, stood out especially in their defensive play, for the 1930 eleven, and are expected to shine in today's encounter. Thirty-five men have been picked to make the trip to Andover. The line-up follows: FRESHMAN ANDOVER Fuller l.e. r.e. Lyons Barrett l.t. r.t. Kingston (Capt) Petrasch l.g. r.g. Stewart McClellan c. c. Gould Ticknor r.g. l.g. Davis Waterman r.t. l.t. Meiker, Roo Lewis r.e. l.t. Avery Wetmore q.b. q.b. Gary, Crandale Holbrook l.h.b. r.h.b. Douglass Devens f.b., f.b. Frigard Mason r.h.b. l.h.b. Wheeler, Luce
Guatds and tackles: Barrett, Campbell, Dickey, Fordyce, Graham, Hitch, Mac Arthur, Mason, Morins, Petraced, Stewart, Storey, Shaw, Ticknor and Water...