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After graduation, at which his classmate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read a paper on the need for a native American literature, Hawthorne went home to his mother's house in Salem and worked at writing. In nine years he borrowed over 700 books from the Salem Athenaeum, a library whose nucleus men like his father had captured, as privateersmen, from the English. Cantwell has looked up the Hawthornes' library record. He deliberately studied New England, reading among other things the files of Salem newspapers during Hawthorne's lifetime. "The books," Cantwell writes, "provide an almost weekly record...
...reception for officers of the college and graduate students in Longfellow Hall and lunch at the Applan Way graduate house followed President Jordan's address and benediction. Annex undergraduates remained in the church for brief talks by Deans Wilma A. Kerby-Miller and Mildred F. Sherman, and for an address by Joan Projansky '49, president of the Student Government Association...
Radcliffe Student Council today extended a blanket invitation to all Annex students -- upperclassmen and freshmen alike--to drop in on weekly Council sessions in the Student Government office, Longfellow 13, every Tuesday from...
Formal opening ends at noon for all undergraduates, but Annex graduate students will go on to an official reception and lunch in Longfellow Hall...
Radcliffe officials will enroll more than 1,000 Annex girls today at the college's 70th Registration Day ceremonies in Longfellow Hall...