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Moon Explosion. Dwight Webster Longfellow, who manufactures concrete products at Elk River, Minn., offered an unorthodox theory to account for certain odd phenomena-the freezing of mastodons in Siberia with half eaten grass in their mouths, the sudden razing of forests whose fossils are found lying horizontally, the drifting of continents, the dislocation of Arctic, Temperate and Torrid Zones, the failure of the magnetic poles to coincide with the terrestrial poles. Mr. Longfellow's theory is that the moon in comparatively recent times popped out from where the Pacific now is and suddenly jerked the earth awry...
...this society Mr. Morris has this to say: "They had probably understood nothing of the text but those passages which they alleged to be objectionable. Thus the guest of Emerson and Sanborn and the finest and purest men and women of Boston and Concord, the friend of Tennyson and Longfellow, and of Mrs. Gilchrist was found unclean by an anonymous group who were unqualified to receive the rich message he brought them...
...group which attended the meeting included Heywood Broun '10, John Mason Brown '23, William Merriam Chadbourne '00, Owen Gould Davis '92, Robert Edmond Jones '10, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, Kenneth MacGowan '11, Lee Simonson '09, and Maurice Wertheim '06, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana '03, Gilbert Vivian Seldes '14, Rudolf Protas Berle '14, George Francis Abbott '12, Lewis Beach '13, William Harris '19, Sydney Coe Howard, and Robert Ittell...
Died. William Sloane Kennedy, 78, of West Yarmouth, Mass., author (The Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Italy in Chains), in West Yarmouth; by drowning while swimming...
...lower grade than that given in Harvard College." The circular was distributed with the signature of Mr. Gilman as secretary and the names of Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. James B. Greenough, Mrs. E. W. Gurney, Miss Lilian Horsford and Miss Alice, M. Longfellow. Under less favorable sponsorship and without the firm support of President Eliot of Harvard it would hardly have become firmly established or have survived long...