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...biographies can achieve, by their literary excellence, the status of masterpieces in the field of belles letters. A larger group, however, can gain lasting interest by a competent and sympathetic appraisal of a great personality. In this class belongs Mrs. Greenough's life of her husband, Chester Noyes Greenough--C.N.G. to the thousands of Harvard men who knew him as teacher, dean, house-master, and scholar-gentleman. So small was C.N.G.'s love of personal fame that, after ten years as dean in the expanding days of the Lowell administration, and five as first master of Dunster House, he could...
Professor Greenough represents all that is best in the New England traditions of sound family and firm living. One reads almost with awe of the grandmother. A minister's wife who kept together her family of husband and eight children on the enormous income of $350 a year, she was yet able to write:" . . . When I am continually exercised with the requisite care of the bodies of my children, and consider that the immortal part is of infinitely more importance. . . O that we could inspire the rising generation around us with a scnse of the importance and worth of time...
Professor Greenough's constant devotion to Harvard and Harvard affairs should be a great source of reassurance to those who cling to the hope that Harvard is something more than an educational factory. He lent a sensitive humanity to his dealings with the University that went far beyond the line of duty. One sees him worrying with the problem of supporting English a for five months on a balance of 82.25; or trying, as dean, to make the Freshman's problem of adjustment a less tortuos one; or, as bouscmaster, asking his assistants to find out which...
William Walker '44 of Groton School and Lionel Hall came second, and David. Arnold '44 of Noble and Greenough School and Thayer Hall was awarded third place...
John R. Abbot, Jr. '43 of Cambridge, has been elected captain of the Freshman one hundred and fifty pound crew. This spring he has stroked Bert Haines' boat to victories over M.I.T. Yale and Princeton. At Noble and Greenough, where he prepared, Abbot was co-captain of the school four, and last fall he won his football numerals...