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Another student, Dickinson Miller, recalls a seminar in metaphysics with of intellectual experience, his profound cultivation in literature, in science and in art ..., his absolutely unfettered and untrammeled mind, ready to do sympathetic justice to the most unaccredited, audacious, or despised hypotheses, yet always keeping his own sense of proportion and the balance of evidence--merely to know these qualities, as we sat about the council-board, was to receive, so far as we were capable of absorbing it, in a heightened sense of the good old adjective, "liberal' education.... In private conversation he had a mastery of words...
Does this greatest of tragic dramas, grand though it is, sound to us as being of merely antiquarian interest? A brochure, first printed in England in 1901, republished in New York in 1903, is now fairly well known to have been written by Mr. G. Lowes Dickinson, the distinguished Hellenist, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Purporting to be Letters From a Chinese Official,on its seventeenth page is this...
...cannot issue him a passport to immortality, even when it would like to. Robert Frost was no literary revolutionary, like Walt Whitman or T. S. Eliot. But he is more controlled and artful than Whitman, less narrowly contemporary than the early Eliot, wider-ranging than that fellow precisionist, Emily Dickinson. Some of these had strengths that were not his, as he had strengths that were not theirs. His own generation can only be sure that he belongs in high company...
Paying his respects to the Amy Lowell Keats Room and the Richardson collection, he drew away the crimson sash and opened the glass door of the Emily Dickinson Room furnished with Miss Dickinson's own furniture and piano, her library, her family portraits, and a sampler she sewed herself. In an august bureau against the far wall, Gridley located the autograph manuscripts of her poems, left just where they had been found at her death. Now, of course, the pages were enclosed in leather folders, but each folder also contained the original strings that Emily Dickinson used...
General Electric Co., Milwaukee, $78,000; Howe Sound Co., N.Y.C., $50,000; Becton-Dickinson & Co., East Rutherford, N.J., $50,000; Aniline Co., Binghamton, N.Y., $45,000; American Sterilizer Co., Erie, Pa., $38,955; Ritter Co. Inc., Rochester, N.Y., $30,000; Empire State Thermometer Co., N.Y.C., $26,000. Under...