Word: greenleaf
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John Winthrop, then a member of the faculty, later President, received the first Harvard honorary LL.D. in 1773. When given at the College, especially in the last century, the LL.D. covered far more than civil and canon law, as shown by John Greenleaf Whittier's recipience of this degree. The citations on the LL.D. degrees referred to "laws of nation," "divine laws," "laws of art," or other such euphemisms during this century to square the degree with the achievement of the recipient...
Mulder and Mortensen have also garnered brief accounts of Mormonism from a lineup of 19th century notables: Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson (who called Mormonism an "after-clap of Puritanism"), John Greenleaf Whittier, and Mark Twain. The latter's revulsion at the concept of polygamy melted at his first sight of the "poor, ungainly and pathetically 'homely' creatures" that were the Mormon wives. "No," Twain wrote, "--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries...
Papa's Fifty Grand. The Atlantic's nervous force was apparent in its first year, when Editor Lowell and Ralph Waldo Emerson pounded out white-hot antislavery editorials, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier contributed poetry, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who had given the Atlantic its name, wrote The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. The Atlantic, long famed for its fiction, has "enjoyed a perpetual state of literary grace," as Professor Frank Luther Mott once noted. When Boston started fading as literary hub of the U.S., the magazine introduced its readers to such diverse talents as Bret...
...books survive from his days in Divinity Hall. "Twenty-eight hundred books," he says, explaining the shop. "I had to do something with them. I sold one just the other week. This fellow came in, said he'd been looking for a certain biography of John Greenleaf Whittier. Well, I had it. Mint condition, too--people don't browse through a book like that very often. He said he'd been hunting for the thing for three years. I told him he should have come to me--I've had it for thirty...
...graduate of Boston University with a B.A. and a law degree, he was first elected to the Everett Common Council in 1938. He served in both houses of the General Court, and for a time was the State's youngest senator. Although he is a descendent of both John Greenleaf Whittier and Charles Sumner, he is not considered a "blueblood" by the Republican party regulars. But Whittier nonetheless puts to good use his residence in a three-decker apartment house in Everett, a declining lower-middle class suburb abutting Somerville. Before an urban audience, the campaigner calls himself a "three...