Word: longfellow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raymond Dennett '36 will lead a discussion on peace and pacifiem at 7:30 o'clock Sunday at the Friends' Center, 5 Longfellow Part...
...First six: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Vachel Lindsay, Emily Dickinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
Long before Longfellow penned his verses about the village smithy, rural Englishmen were singing a hippety-hopping tune to the words...
...tone-poem Finlandia, Jean Sibelius' most popular composition is a little descriptive piece called The Swan of Tuonela. Written in 1893, The Swan of Tuonela was originally part of a suite of four tone-poems illustrating the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, on which U. S. word-poet Longfellow modeled his Hiawatha. Of this suite only The Swan of Tuonela, and another, noisier fragment called Lemminkäinen's Homecoming have been published and performed. The manuscripts of the other two fragments were lost...
World War I drove Charles Austin Beard, dean of U. S. historians, from the faculty of Columbia University. He was then militantly anti-German and prowar, but in October 1917 he resigned from the University because it had fired Pacifists James McKeen Cattell and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana. Said he: "The University is ... under the control of a small and active group of trustees who . . . are reactionary and visionless in politics and narrow and medieval in religion...