Word: barrette
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HARVARD. BROWN. McLeish, r.f. l.g., Leddy Pallo, l.f. r.g., Miller Fitts, c. c., Barrett Chase, r.g. l.f., Doyle, Albright Miller, l.g. r.f., Mallory...
...portrait of the late Professor Barrett Wendell '77, of the University who died last Tuesday, has been hung in the historic Faculty Room in University Hall along with the portraits of bygone presidents, benefactors, and scholars of the University. The painting, which has been hanging recently in the Harvard Club of Boston, now takes a place in the Faculty Room next to that of William James. On the same wall of the room hang the portraits of James Russell Lowell, former professor of Belles Lettres and former Overseer of the University; Professor Sophocles, the celebrated and eccentric teacher of Greek...
Indisputably Barrett Wendell belonged to the great group of Harvard professors which included Norton, Child Shaler, Royce and William James; but almost as indisputably he stood apart from it--was never really of it. To the fetich of German "scientific" scholarship, the true divinity of which no one then doubted, he paid scant homage. His mind worked by flashes--flashes of wit, of iconoclastic paradox, of profound intelligence and of almost magical divination; but still, as it seemed to academic Cambridge, it worked uncanonically, irresponsibly. His knowledge was wide and luminous; on most of the subjects of which he wrote...
...Barrett Wendell '77, professor of English at the University for thirty-seven years, and known throughout America and Europe as scholar and teacher, died at six o'clock yesterday morning at his home, 358 Marlborough street, Boston. He had been ill for several weeks with anaemia. He was in his 66th year...
...born in Boston on August 23, 1855, the son of Jacob and Mary Bertoldi (Barrett) Wendell, was graduated from the University in 1877, being a classmate of President Lowell, and began his teaching career at the University in 1880. For eight years he held the title of instructor. In 1888 he was promotd to an assistant professorship and ten years later became full professor, in which position he served for 19 years...