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...Henry Greenleaf Pearson...
QUAKER MILITANT: JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER- Albert Mordell -Houghton Mifflin...
...John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was a Massachusetts farm boy and a Quaker, who lifted up his eyes to Parnassus and neighboring hills. Soon his poems began appearing in newspapers; he left the farm and took to journalism. Even in his salad days his poems were notable for their uprightness; he considered the age poisoned by the licentiousness of Byron and Shelley, and in later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause...
Patronesses for the dance are: Mrs. N. Henry Black, wife of the director of the Summer Session, Mrs. Henry Greenleaf Pearson, Mrs. W. I. Nichols, Mrs. S. E. Young, Mrs. A. N. Holcombe, and Mrs. J. J. Thorndike...
...Richard Glover Ames 154 *Brad ford Simmons 146 *Richard Palmer Waters, Jr. 108 *Roger Harper Martin 105 *Carl Albert Pescosolido 90 Alfred Bewitch Hallowell 88 Paul de Barsy de Give 84 Elwood Kimball Salls 68 Atreus Von Schrader, Jr. 66 Theodore Chase 65 Francis Howes Gleason 61 Henry Greenleaf Pearson, Jr. 60 Richard Bassett 58 George Huntington Damon 55 John Moore Morse 52 John Thomas Higgins 47 Class of 1935 *Ebenezer Francis Bowditch 226 *Herman Gundlach, Jr. 161 *Franklin Plummer Whitbeck 155 David Whitney Lewis 145 Charles Fuller Woodard 78 Henry Hodge Brewster 60 John Hopkins Morison 44 *Elected