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...150th anniversary of Longfellow's birth will be celebrated today by two special exhibits in Cambridge. One hundred and twenty-five manuscripts, memorabilia, and first editions are being shown at Houghton Library, and special exhibits are on display at Longfellow House...
This afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m., visitors may view the displays at Longfellow House, 105 Brattle Street, without payment of the usual admission charges...
None of the faculty members contacted yesterday was very enthusiastic about Longfellow's work. Perhaps the least critical was Howard Mumford Jones professor of English, who said that Longfellow wrote some very good sonnets and was valuable as a translator. Jones ascribed Longfellow's present lack of popularity to his lack of intellectual depth...
...status between two groups of students at Harvard. Any one of these days, near the hours of 9 A.M. or 2 P.M., an observer may see Harvard men on their ways to Memorial Hall, the Geographic Institute, the Fine Arts Museum, etc.--Radcliffe girls on their way to Longfellow Hall. Harvard men are faced by a bevy of proctors, whose function, besides that of passing out and collecting blue books, is to serve as watchdogs of student honor. The young ladies from Radcliffe are passing the same three hours with the satisfaction of knowing that the University deems their honor...
Martyrdom of Fire. In 1858 John Long, a young schoolteacher who was later to be a three-time governor of Massachusetts, wrote in his journal: "I judge that Longfellow has not suffered enough to be a great poet." Less than three years later, if he remembered it, the entry must have made him uneasy. On July 9, 1861 Fanny was sealing a package that contained a lock of one of her children's hair. Her sleeve caught fire, and in a moment her light summer dress became a sheath of flame. Trying to save her, Longfellow was himself seriously...