Word: friend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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According to the wish expressed in a letter to an intimate friend, the University will receive the library of the late Professor Hugo Muensterberg. This announcement came out yesterday in connection with the auction sale of the household furnishings at Professor Muensterberg's home, 7 Ware street, Cambridge. President Lowell was informed of Professor Muensterberg's desire and expressed a great satisfaction and stated officially that the University would be pleased to accept the library...
...great hit. But it is not, simply because no finishing or smoothing or polishing has been done. Out with the tools, Mr. Producer, for if Broadway stamped this thing with approval, there must be some potential virtue in it, and Boston does like to agree with its Manhattan friend, even though it never does...
...interesting contribution to a recent issue of the Boston Herald Professor Arthur Gordon Webster, of Worcester, tells the following story. One Commencement Day he met an undergraduate whom he asked to pick out their fellow-townsmen on the Honor List. With a laugh of contempt his friend replied: "We don't go in much for that." Professor Webster and a great many critics of American higher education would take this instance as typical of the proverbial Harvard indifference. There is still considerable justification for their opinion. Yet during the last two years Americans, and American students in particular, have undoubtedly...
...France and resumed his duties at the front. During his work with the Ambulance, Lines had many narrow escapes from death and twice underwent operations for injuries contracted from heavy lifting work. Only a few days before his last illness he sent a Christmas greeting to a college friend asking him to collect a fund which would make possible the establishment of a Dartmouth bed for the college ward of the American Ambulance...
...When one of us dies," again says Professor Palmer, "his colleagues mourn, not for the public loss alone, but for their own much more, each sharing with each such bits of remembrance as illustrate the beauty and excellence of the absent friend. In the family journal of Harvard I would record in this fragmentary and intimate way the affection which 34 years have bred in me for Josiah Royce...