Word: blissfully
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...three speakers of the evening were the Honorable Joseph Hodges Choate '52, late ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James, Professor Bliss Perry, and the Honorable Moorfield Storey...
...Right Reverend William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts will preside. The Honorable Joseph H. Choate '52, late ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James, will read a paper on Dana as a citizen, a lawyer, and a writer on the subject of international law. Professor Bliss Perry will speak of Dana as a man of letters and as the author of "Two Years Before the Mast," and the Honorable Moorfield Storey '66 will talk on what Dana did in connection with the antislavery movement. The meeting has been arranged by a special committee which has secured...
...auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday evening, October 20, at 8 o'clock. The Right Reverend William Lawrence will preside and the Honorable Joseph H. Choate '52 will read a paper on Dana as a citizen, lawyer, and writer on international law. Professor Bliss Perry will discuss Dana as a man of letters. Moorfield Story '66 will also speak...
...time of such political and social commotion as the present, Professor Bliss Perry's book on Carlyle, the great social preacher, is especially timely. Carlyle's peculiar style has thrown up a barrier, increasing in formidableness as time passes, to discourage the hasty reader. And, as Professor Perry remarks, the modern reader is content with picked-up ideas and "facile guesses" regarding the personality of this great Victorian figure. The real flexibility of Carlyle's use of language, "the rich accent of Annandale," is concealed for many by his vagaries and eccentricities. Moreover, the violence and unpersuasiveness of his method...
...places in Europe, on it having devolved the care of those citizens of all the nations fighting against the French, still resident in, or travelling through, France. Many Harvard men were among those at once pressed into the corps of workers in the Embassy: Robert Bacon, '80, Robert W. Bliss '00, 1st Sec. of the Embassy, and W. O'D. Iselin '05, were active workers from the very beginning. Since those days there have been many changes. Major Morton Henry '92, Edward Pickman '08, and other Harvard men have at different times helped in the Embassy...