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...that time, Dr. Butler's faculty had begun to get the point. They knew well that 23 years before, Dr. Butler had made a similar pronouncement, had fired Professors James McKeen Cattell and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana* for extracurricular opposition to U. S. participation in World War I. Dr. Butler perorated...
...remember the Chester A. Arthur era of U. S. horse racing will never forget Monmouth Park. There, on the petticoat of Jersey's fashionable Long Branch, the Jersey Derby set a vogue for U.S. derbies. There, in 1872, in one of the greatest match races of all time, Longfellow, son of British-bred Leamington, licked Harry Bassett, son of Kentucky-bred Lexington. There, in 1890, James Ben Ali Haggin's immortal Salvator ran a mile in 1:35½-a record that stood for over a quarter of a century...
...land-plane fields at Truro, Halifax and Yarmouth, across the Bay of Fundy from Franklin Roosevelt's summer vacation spot at Campobello Island. (North of Halifax is the village of Grand Pré where Britain's ruthless handling in 1755 of a political minority was hexametred by Longfellow in Evangeline...
Heirs of Revolution. The great men of The Flowering of New England had been Emerson, Thoreau, Lowell, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes. In a prose stanza with the roll of an epic, Critic Brooks described their significance: "As heirs of the Revolution, they spoke for the liberal world-community. As men who loved the land and rural customs, they shared the popular life in its roots, at its source. As readers and students of the classics, they followed great patterns of behavior, those that Europeans followed also. In short, as magnanimous men, well seasoned, they wrote with a certain authority...
Because in speaking for themselves they spoke for most Americans, their countrymen revered the New England giants, even when age had left them like a range of extinct peaks on a receding horizon. Critic William Winter walked in the moonlight to touch the latch of Longfellow's gate. Others traveled to Concord to gaze at Emerson's woodpile. Young William Dean Howells walked up Lowell's path with palpitating heart...