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...fidgets (he used to tear whole handkerchiefs to shreds while teaching), "Casey" Sills mellowed into a pleasant, paunchy "ex-scholar," famed for his love of Dante, for eating (so goes the legend) eleven lobster stews at a sitting, and for liking to run his piny campus just as if Longfellow were still there: "Excellent teaching in wooden halls is much better than wooden teaching in marble halls...
...Jordan, the reasons are primarily financial. The regular graduation exercises for the Annex cost $1600. If the ceremonies were switched to the dormitory quadrangle, the proposed site, there would be an additional expense of $3000. An outdoor commencement would cost $2200 extra in the academic quad, formed by Agassiz, Longfellow, and Fay House...
...earned good marks after college. In its first 70 years, PBK added only six chapters; but by that time its reputation had already spread all over the U.S. When Harvard's chapter gave a dinner in 1824, Lafayette was there. At the Harvard meeting of 1833, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the poet; in 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson was the orator and delivered his famous plea for the liberation of the American scholar ("Our intellectual Declaration of Independence!" cried PBK's Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. "Our Yankee version of a lecture by Abélard!" echoed...
...four classes will assemble around the Yard: the Class of '52 in front of Longfellow Hall, the Class of '53 in front of the Library, the Class of '54 in front of Agassis House, and the Class of '55 in front of the Gymnasium...
...yesterday 977 Radcliffe undergraduates had filed in and filled out their multiple forms. To date, 1,320 Annex undergraduates and graduates were registered in Longfellow Hall, Registrar Ruth Davenport announced last night...