Word: eliot
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...Charles Eliot Norton is dead, and with his death the last link between the present age and that immortal coterie of men of letters--Longfellow and Lowell, Holmes and Emerson, Whittier and Hawthorne--is gone. He was of that same golden period of American literature which we shall not see renewed in the course of many years, the companion as well as the contemporary of those great men. It was his good fortune to have enjoyed the intimate friendship of many of the noblest personalities of his day, both at home and abroad, and the result was a unique breadth...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will give the first of a series of eight concerts in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock, under the direction of Max Friedler. The program will be as follows: Beethoven, "Eroica," in memoriam Charles Eliot Norton; Strauss, Love Scene from "Feuersnot"; Wagner, Overture to Tannhauser...
Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, professor emeritus in the University, is dying at his home on Shady Hill. Last Saturday evening he began to fail rapidly, and his death is now only a matter of a few hours. Dr. E. H. Stevens of Cambridge, who is in constant attendance, announced early this morning that Professor Norton was sinking rapidly, and that the end might be expected at any time. Mr. Norton has suffered for several months from the infirmities that come with age, and has grown gradually worse, until his sinking to a dangerous condition yesterday...
President Eliot was the first speaker of the evening. Never has a year begun since the inauguration of the plan of exchange professors under such favorable auspices as has this one. Professor Kuehnemann is singularly welcome because we are acquainted with him and with his work. The visiting professor is as one of the Faculty, because his courses count for a degree. So it was with Professor Davis in Berlin when he went over as exchange professor...
Professor Kuehnemann was the last speaker. He had always felt it his duty, he said, to impress the power and personality of President Eliot and of the University on every one. It had been hard to decide to come over here for the second time and to leave Germany; but his sense of duty called him. He wished to spread the knowledge of what Germany had done in literature and what her great figure stood for among the young men of this country. To them, as the new generation, is his mission...