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...Harvard's leadership among American universities. Since the founding of the College in 1636, this leadership has been bound up inseparably with a tradition rich in the names of great teachers and illustrious graduates. From Dunster and Mather descends an unbroken line of famous professors down to Peirce, Longfellow, Gray, Norton, Shaler, Agassiz, Palmer, James, and Briggs. Graduates like Jonathan Trumbull, John Quincy Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph H. Choate, Phillips Brooks, Theodore Roosevelt, and others, have carried throughout the civilized world Harvard thought and Harvard ideals. In the community, in the State, and in the country, for nearly three...
...Yale man's productions, but what have these college-boy partisanships to do with serious matters of artistic beauty where large and vital loyalties are at stake? Suppose a Yale critic were to impugn the taste, which should set up a piece of poetic sentimentality like, let us say. Longfellow's "Psalm of Life" as a model and touchstone for young lovers of poetry. Should we not, Harvard and Yale men alike, regard him as performing an important public service? Yet the "Psalm of Life" is almost good as compared with "The Lamp in the West", and musical standards among...
...most maligned of poets and at the same time one of the most revered is to be Professor Murdock's subject in English 33 this morning at 10 o'clock in Harvard 2. Longfellow is the poet without whom home is not home and a library is just a collection of books. Yet that this is far from being the true estimate of his merit seems the truth. It is claimed that he was a scholar, a true virtuoso, and a legitimate claimant to the deanship of American letters. I will seek the truth on this matter...
...Pittsfield, Mass., it is proposed to buy a house built many years ago by Thomas Gold, whose granddaughter married Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who lived and wrote there during several summers, and an adjoining house, built in 1820, in which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Ward Beecher and Fanny Kemble were frequent guests. The town not only proposes to buy the houses but to raze them and erect a modern high school. One thousand members of indignant front families protested last week against the design, and the Rev. Dr. Paul Revere Frothingham, noted Unitarian divine, ejaculated: "I am horrified by the sacrilege...
...vice-chairmen; Dwight Barnum of Boston; Alexander Donald of Milton; Edwin Farnham of Belmont; Lewis Henderson Gordon of Flushing, N. Y.; Gerard William Govan of Allston; Carl Melville Lindner of Medford; Alfred Henry Miller of Dorchester; Bayard Livingston Kilgour of Cincinnati, O.; Geoffrey Platt of New York City; Henry Longfellow deRham of Cold Spring, N. Y.; James Edward Tobin of Boston; and Henry Russell Wood of New Bedford...