Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...member of the republic of letters, was placed at the command of those who sought his help. Students found him a willing adviser, ready to impart the results of a life of investigation. Instructors were stimulated by his devotion to his own studies, aided by his impartial friendship for every department of learning, and encouraged by his hearty acceptance of every proposition for the improvement and better use of the collections under his charge. For twenty of the most important years in the intellectual history of the University, Mr. Winsor thus co-operated with the teaching body now incorporated...
While so prominent a figure in athletics, he by no means neglected the academic side of college life. He was interested in his courses, and always stood well in them. He had the respect and friendship of instructors as well as students. Socially, he was popular as few have been. He was a member of the Institute of 1770, Dickey, Hasty Pudding Club, and Signet. He was the unanimous choice of his class for second marshal on class day. Higher honors he might have had, but he took only such as were forced upon...
After all, this formal renewal of friendship is an achievement which in time to come should mean more to Harvard and to Yale than victory or defeat. Harvard is glad to meet her old foes again, and glad that hereafter the meetings on the home grounds will render freer than before social and personal intercourse. Yale men and Harvard men, however their petty prejudices and superficial traits may differ, are nevertheless of the same stock. They are both more thoroughly cosmopolitan than men from other colleges. They come from all ranks of society, and from all sections of the country...
...correspondence between John Sterling and Ralph Waldo Emerson has just been published by Houghton, Miffilin and Company, together with a sketch of Sterling's life by Edward Waldo Emerson. Though Sterling and Emerson never saw each other, there was a warm friendship between them,- a friendship of letters it might be called. A likeness in what they wrote, as in the events of their lives, seemed to make them fitted for one another. Emerson had already been attracted by the other's work when he received a letter from Carlyle, telling of Sterling's admiration for him. Emerson therewith sent...
This correspondence, now published for the first time, is not only interesting as showing the growth of this peculiar friendship, perhaps affection, between two literary men, but is an addition of some value to the writings of Emerson. Many of these letters with their views upon life are veritable essays and they are written in a literary style...