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...interesting books will find a unique collection which has many valuable literary associations connected with their ownership. There are books which once belonged to Ben Jonson, Wordsworth, George Washington and others, as well as volumes made precious by association with Mr. Norton's own friends, Ruskin, Holmes, Longfellow and Curtis...
...that golden prime which we Americans shall not see renewed in the course of many centuries. While he lives, Emerson and Hawthorne, Longfellow and Lowell, Whittier and Holmes, are not lost to the consciousness of any who knew them; the Cambridge, the Boston, the New England, the America which lived in them, has not yet passed away. He was not only the contemporary, the companion of those great men; he was their fellow citizen in those highest things in which we may be his if we will, for the hospitality of his welcome will not be wanting. Something Athenian, something...
Charles Eliot Norton is dead, and with his death the last link between the present age and that immortal coterie of men of letters--Longfellow and Lowell, Holmes and Emerson, Whittier and Hawthorne--is gone. He was of that same golden period of American literature which we shall not see renewed in the course of many years, the companion as well as the contemporary of those great men. It was his good fortune to have enjoyed the intimate friendship of many of the noblest personalities of his day, both at home and abroad, and the result was a unique breadth...
...front of the Hemenway Gymnasium there is a new bronze statue, a replica of the "Discobolus" of the Vatican. A handsome pedestal of Italian marble completes the gift, which came from E. W. Longfellow '65, a nephew of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '59. The arch at the entrance of Appleton Chapel has been adorned with a small fragment of an archway from St. Saviour's Church in Southwark, England, in which John Harvard was baptized...
...England--"Famous New England Artists Series," by F. W. Coburn '91; "Architecture and the Public," by W. P. P. Longfellow...