Word: busting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...friends and countrymen. The act is only another instance of the growing feeling of friendship which is fast uniting the two great English speaking nations into one great commonwealth of letters. Let us hope that a fitting position may be found in which to place this new memorial bust. Where could a better place be found than in the library where the material work of the great poet finds its Harvard resting place...
...gentlemen in England who placed the memorial of Longfellow in Westminster Abbey, remembering the friends of the poet in this country, have generously sent two copies of the bust of the poet, one to Harvard College and the other to the Maine Historical Society of Portland, the city where he was born. These replicas left Liverpool about the middle of December on the Canard line, which will forward them free of expense, and ought soon to be here. Meanwhile a letter from the Prince of Wales has been received by the president, announcing the gift. It is as follows...
Gentlemen-the executive committee of the Longfellow Memorial Fund have much pleasure in offering to the president and fellows of Harvard College a copy of the bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, executed by Thomas Brock, A. R. A., and recently placed amongst the memorials of British worthies in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey...
...early settlers in the colony will stand in close proximity. The sculptor who has been selected to execute the design is a young man of promise, Mr. D. C. French, who has already modeled some well known figures, among them the "Minute Man" at Concord, Mass., and a bust of Emerson. In his pretty little studio at Concord the work of modeling has been done and the casting has just been completed at the works of Bounard at New York. The face of the statute is necessarily an ideal one as no representation of Harvard is extant. All that...
...reason for doubting that it is, this is indeed appropriate. For it is with these two colleges that the name of Longfellow is so intimately associated,-as a student at Bowdoin, and a professor at Harvard. Further, it is pleasing to be recipients of a copy of the bust of him who is the first of Americans to be honored by a niche in the "poet's corner" of the famous English abbey. Harvard, for her part, will receive gratefully this tribute to the memory of him who was so long connected with it and who remained till...