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...Yale's Divinity School, has become a Dr. Fix-It for colleges that complain of sagging enrollment. As director of admissions for Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., Moll brought a slice of pizazz to the countrified, 186-year-old alma mater of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Moll persuaded Bowdoin to allow applicants to skip the College Board exams, an attention-getting move, and he issued a new college brochure splashed with photos of sunsets, lobster pots and the Maine seacoast. Results during Moll's eight years at Bowdoin, applications increased from...
...century stirred racial and class biases among the old Cantabrigians, and among the new as well. As Sutton explains, "the Irish, Portuguese, Italians, Poles and other immigrants who settled the Point and the Port had no interest in the aesthetic activities in Harvard Yard and did not care what Longfellow said to his butcher...
...250th Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge,prepared by order of the City Council. This book records only one day in te city's history but still managers to paint vividly an entire era. It's worth reading, if only for the story of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow reciting poetry to schoolchildren...
Chief among the celebrities were the poets Oliver Wendall Homes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Holmes addressed the children first, reciting a poem he had written while homesick during a trip to Pisa, Italy. "And still in Memory's holiest shrine, I read with pride and joy," he said in a gentle tone. "For me the stars of empire shine; that empire's dearest home is mine; I am a Cambridge...
...Longfellow, by now and old man, was not scheduled to speak. But when the governor sent word at the last minute that he could not attend, the author of "The Village Blacksmith" agreed to say a few words. "I feel very much as I suppose some of you do when you are suddenly called upon in your classroom," he told them. After thanking the schoolchildren for the gift to hin of a rocking chair, Longfellow concluded with a statement that can only be described as philosophical: "I am afraid that 50 years hence, this day and all that belongs...