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...proposal to turn the area around Cambridge Common into a "historic district" may force the Graduate School of Education to abandon an extensive building program on land along Appian Way (across from Longfellow Hall) for which it recently paid more than $1 million...
Earliest was the 16th century's Hiawatha, who was not a Chippewa (as Longfellow's poem has it) but a member of one of the five Iroquoian tribes (either a Mohawk or an Onondagan). A cannibal like all Iroquois at that time, he became a mystic and prophet who united the five tribes into a single confederation. Then there was the Wampanoags' King Philip, who fought the Puritan colonists in the 1600s while his warriors defected or died around him, and who himself was killed defending his lands. The obscure Pueblo medicine...
...Cambridge Seasonal, which I would call his finest work. In this paean to an academic community, Freeman's generous treasure of words does not seem overlush or recondite. He wields the recherche with deftness and then undercuts it with a wonderful transition to the commonplace. Part III ends with Longfellow "Englishing his purgatorio ... while a spirit-lamp warms the coffee up." Part IV shatters this academic fantasy and brings us back to earth...
...first day's ballot counting in Longfellow School, two incumbent Councilors were assured of re-election. Unofficially, Councilor Walter J. Sullivan topped the ticket with 4,735 votes, while Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 followed closely with...
Most of the $1.2 million which Radcliffe received from the sale of Longfellow Hall will be used to build the new house center planned for the west side of the residential Quadrangle and the library-study-tutorial center. The College will employ some of the money in renovating Fay House and moving the Radcliffe Alumnae Office and the College Fund Office from their current location in the basement of Longfellow to new quarters in Fay House...