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...tablet, which is the gift of members of the Longfellow family, is of a design similar to that placed in front of design similar to that placed in front of University Hall in 1895 by the Harvard Memorial Society. It is a bronze relief, about two and one-half by three feet mounted on a low concrete base. On the tablet are shown the present boundaries and buildings of Soldiers Field, and the extent and relative position of the three original tracts which now compose Soldiers Field...
These are among the last of the "tedious but popular" hexameters of Evangeline, written by Poet Longfellow...
...diseases ? tuberculosis, typhoid, acquired or congenital "diminished resistance" (euphemistic for syphilis), carcinoma (cancer), sarcoma (tumor), gonorrhea, malaria, influenza, colon septicaemia, streptococcus and staphylococcus infections. Most patients have traces of several of these, and the majority are found to have some form of syphilis. Autographs of Samuel Johnson, Poe, Longfellow, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Pepys and Bret Harte have been tested by Dr. Abrams, revealing that all of them suffered from various dread diseases...
...authority on a poet so peculiarly. Anglo-Saxon as Shakespeare. These same people, however, take it for granted that men of northern descent are competent to treat the Romance literatures. Aside from the great Teutonic students of the classics, one can still find men like Lowell, Longfellow, or Grandgent, whose names are inseparably connected with so typical a national figure as Dante. And Dante's influence on his country has been as great or greater than that of Shakespeare on England. The fact is that the world of culture is bounded only by the limits of man himself. Furthermore...
...Page's memorial is the third to be erected to an United States' citizen, the others being to Longfellow and Lowell...