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Thus, in his Morituri Salutamus, Alumnus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (class of 1825) exhorted the seniors of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.) on the 50th anniversary of his own graduation. Last week Bowdoin, still one of the nation's top-ranking small colleges, celebrated its 150th anniversary. For 2,160 of its bold alumni there are stars in Bowdoin's World War II service flag; for 31 of the boldest the stars are gold...
Professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana will speak on Russia at a similar meeting on February 20, announced forum chairman Abraham Isenstadt. The Forum has featured many prominent speakers in the past...
...exquisite philosophical literature ever composed, is the first U.S. thinker whose work and life link the cultures of North and South America and interweave them with the old romantic culture of Spain. Readers may make their own decisions as to how important that work is now. But ever since Longfellow mastered Spanish, since Irving wrote his studies of old Spain, and tireless Prescott, grey, half-blind, burrowed into Spanish archives to write his histories, the works of interpretation have gone on, their very number showing how much misunderstanding existed and how deep was the desire...
...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, the poet's grandson, 1936 supporter of Earl Browder for the U.S. Presidency...
...Bull received 50-odd years of public homage. Statesmen like Henry Clay, authors like William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Thackeray basked in his companionship. Longfellow and Joaquin Miller wrote poems about him. Women begged for samples of his bath water. Sixteen-year-old Queen Isabella of Spain offered him a generalship in her army...