Word: longfellow
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...Boston Harbor, the Oak Ridge Station of the Observatory, and Wellesley College. The Observatory expects about 65 foreign delegates and 175 Americans to attend. They will be housed in the Radcliffe dormitories. The annual meeting will close with a general assembly on Friday, September 9, in the Alice Longfellow Hall of Radcliffe College...
...culture and the culture of life. The cranks besieged him. but he was impregnable. He continued to lecture far & wide. Far & wide he circulated, like a cultured bacillus, trying to infect the U. S. with some symptoms of a native civilization. He organized literary clubs, the Transcendental Club; with Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes. Agassiz, Dana he joined the Boston Saturday Club. He tried to introduce Whitman to his Boston friends but Lowell demurred?"a New York tough, a frequenter of low places." Finally his energies ran low; his memory began to fail, his raven hair fell out. A trip to Egypt...
Having celebrated the centenary of Goethe's death with lectures at Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, George Washington University, white-maned Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann sailed for Germany and home. Between lectures he had found time to visit with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana at Cambridge, Senator Borah in Washington, Playwright Eugene O'Neill in Manhattan; to view a production of Sadko at the Metropolitan Opera; to lunch sumptuously in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's elegant dining room (see cut). Said he upon sailing: ''The two outstanding things in my visit . . . were meeting O'Neill and attending...
Although a considerable amount of the filling placed in the vicinity of the Longfellow and Cottage Farm Bridges was obtained from excavations in various parts of the city, the filling now is largely being taken from the bottom of the basin. Borings were taken at 500 foot intervals each way over the entire extent of the basin to determine the character of the river bed and the depths of the various strata. In general, the bottom consists of a layer of mud and silt, under which is a layer of gravel, and below this is clay or hard...
...clock an informal dinner will be held at the Commander Hotel, Cambridge. Mr. J. E. Blossom, of Worcester Academy, will be the toastmaster. The speakers for the dinner are: Mr. E. W. Weeks, of the Atlantic Monthly Company; Dr. Henry W. Longfellow Dana '03, of Cambridge; Professor R. S. Hillyer '17, associate Professor of English; Miss Phyllis Bottome, British novelist, author of "Devil's Due" and other stories. The charge for the dinner will be $1.75 to members of either the Harvard Teachers Association or the New England Association of Teachers of English and $2.00 to non-members...