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Associated Harvard Clubs: Theodore P. Band Jr. Moscow, Ida,; and John B. Dexter Bozeman, Mont...
...this very house lived old Dexter Pratt, whose popular blacksmith shop had been built next door at the corner of Story Street. Walking daily between Craigie House and Harvard Hall, Professor Longfellow Habitually stopped to chat with the genial forget tender. A strong friendship developed between the two, climaxed in 1839 when the poet immortalized smithy in a work that has been chanted by American schoolboys ever since...
...historians-of several different families claiming direct descent from the original "Village Blacksmith." Most convincing of these were some people bearing the respected Boston name of Hancock. Interested in authenticating the legend once and for all, Whit more supervised a minute scouring of the Cambridge archives and concluded that Dexter Pratt was the most logical hero of Longfellow's poem. One Torrey Hancock, whit more found, did build the house and operate the smithy; but he sold out to Pratt in 1823, twelve years before Longfellow was appointed to Harvard...
William J. Baker 3M, Bernard Barber, now assistant in Sociology at Tulane University; Coleridge A. Braithwaite 2G, Chester J. Dexter 1M, George C. Harris 2G, and Harry H. Wasserman, now a Technology...
Awards for travel and study this summer are: Rogers fellowship to Sumner Willard, teaching fellow in Romance Languages; Charles Dexter scholarships in English to Meyer H. Abrams, instructor in English, Charles W. Dunn, teach- ing fellow in English, Branford P. Millar, teaching fellow in English, Robert R. Rogers, teaching fellow in English, Outo E. Schoen-Rene, who was an instructor in English last year, and Claude M. Simpson, Jr., instructor in English; Sheldon fellowship to Irving M. London...