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...from Harvard College with the famous class of 1829, immortalized in many of his lighter poems. His name has always been closely associated with that distinguished New England group of men of letters which attained so enviable a position in the second half of the last century. As poet, essayist and physician, Holmes was equally successful. He lectured for many years in the Harvard Medical School, and his standing in his profession was always notably high. To be commemorated by so distinguished a company of men as are to speak in Sanders tonight is indeed a fitting tribute to this...
Herr von Heymel gave up an active career as a lieutenant in the German army to devote himself to literary pursuits. He is already recognized as a leading critic and essayist on art and literature, and has written a number of poems, the most notable of which is a dramatic poem, "The Death of Narcissus...
...striking about the book, coming from the President of the oldest American university, is that his field of speculation and interest is so much larger than the mere field of education. Fifty years ago such a book would have been a narrow if not sectarian performance; today the essayist is no mere educator, but a man of the world, an administrator, the executive, representative head of a corporation so important, so closely connected with the life of the country, as to make him a public character; a man whose function it is to speak, not merely for Harvard University...
...Religious Union is to be congratulated on securing for the first of its series of lectures, so distinguished a man as Mr. John Fiske. Mr. Fiske's reputation as an essayist in both historical and philosophical fields is a guarantee that whatever he has to say on so interesting a subject a subject as "The Mystery of Evil" will be decidedly worth hearing...
...writer of memoirs, magazine articles and an essayist, De Quincey was one of the princes of English literature. He was of an intellectual turn of mind and resolved to see the world with his own and not with other's eyes. To earn his daily bread, he was compelled to write what would bring him immediate returns. Thus his literary activity was determined by his financial condition and his first writings were fugitive magazine articles which won for him the greater part of his fame...