Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Burr, while falling on the ball in the preliminary practice yesterday, wrenched his arm and will not be able to play today. The full extent of his injuries is not known, but apparently no ligaments or muscles were torn. McGuire will take his place at left guard. Dunlap will play in Hoar's position at right guard on account of injuries to the latter's hip. Houston will start the game at left end and Cutting will probably be substituted for him in the second half...
...during his active service as Professor in the University, with the routine of instruction. The number of persons whom he has helped by his wise counsel, his quick recognition of merit, his friendly criticism, and his generous encouragement is large, and includes many whose names are now well known for honorable achievements in literature and the fine arts. The more than liberal expenditure of time in helping others told upon the amount of his own literary production. Of his exhaustive studies, and widely-known translations, of Dante (which have international reputation as of foremost excellence) I need not speak...
...whole had been often overlooked. A representative of that wholeness Mr. Norton became. To the anxious debates of the Faculty, through which the modern Harvard has been gradually evolved, he brought the steadying influence of a mind free from provinciality, an acquaintance with the best the world elsewhere has known, a spirit averse to mechanical methods, a loyalty to high ideals, and a disposition ever to make the moral being of the students his prime care. While his colleagues often felt that what he urged required supplementation, or even occasional antagonism, his simplicity, sweetness, and generosity won their affection...
...America, like the Cambridge of England, has always attracted the poets, and men of poetic minds. Professor Norton has stood for the beautiful in literature, for the beautiful in art, and for the beautiful in life. It is significant that with all his admiration for the classical, he is known as one of the closest friends and encouragers in America of the most modernly resonant poet of Great Britain. It is significant, too, that while a lover of the reserved and the reposeful, such as Harvard represents inwardly and outwardly, he is an appreciator of the new spirit...
...died at Lenox, Mass., on October 7, the sum of $175,000 has been bequeathed to the University to endow a new Department of Biological Chemistry. The endowment is made in memory of Mrs. Kuhn's son, who was interested in this particular branch of science, and will be known as the Hamilton Kuhn Professorship...