Word: concord
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Vaughan Apthorp, 95, oldest Harvard alumnus (1865); in Concord, Mass. His successor: Thomas Wren Ward (1866), 95 on October...
...Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon, loudest and biggest in the U. S. The biggest of these bells weighed as much as a good-sized army tank, the loudest of them could be heard in the neighboring State of New Jersey. But to the 17 listeners this tintinnabulation was a concord of sweet sound. For they were members of the North American Guild of Carillonneurs, and they were hearing some pretty hot carillonning...
Francis A. Harding of Watertown, secretary of the class of 1909, disclosed that Hanfstaengl senior had written him a letter in March in which he expressed a desire that his son, now in his last year at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, should come to Harvard next September...
...lecture tours in Maine (the arctic villages made him imagine he was exiled to Siberia), out in the frontier West, Emerson all but forgot the Concord saints. The men in the Maine train he found "independent, with sufficient manners and more manly force than most of the scholars he had known. (A pity, but why deny it?)" The Westerners were "grisly Esaus, full of dirty strength." Every forceful man in New England, he thought, had gone West. If his travels read like a drummer's timetable, his Abolition activities make lim look like a Balkan conspirator. Such behavior...
This year "Copey" has not carried out his annual custom of giving a Christmas reading to the Freshman Class, reading on Christmas Eve at the President's house, or spending ten Wednesday evenings with a few Yardlings at his Concord Street apartment, because of his doctor's orders that he should not have too many definite engagements. He will, however, give a Bible reading on May 4 in the upper common room of the Union...