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That blindfolded figure you may have seen groping his way around Longfellow Hall yesterday at noon was not pursuing the tail-end of a long-eared equine...
Some of the "guinea pigs" sat passively. Others stumbled down the stairs and through the halls of Longfellow. One intrepid subject braved the traffic on Appian Way. Another made her way to Brigham's for lunch...
...gravely heeded. Even arithmetic books instilled patriotism. Symbols burgeoned-Old Glory, the Liberty Bell, the bald eagle, Uncle Sam. Everyone memorized militant songs, such as Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean ("Three cheers for the Red, White and Blue"). And McGuffey readers-hardly a child alive could not recite Longfellow's verse...
...other side of the Longfellow School gymnasium, they were sorting the canary-yellow School Committee ballots and making an unofficial count...
While the Aeolian name itself is not widely recognized, its golden trade names have graced the underside of fall boards for more than a century and a half. Most familiar is the Chickering, whose owners included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Teddy Roosevelt. Francis Scott Key played The Star-Spangled Banner on a Knabe; Lyndon Johnson has a Knabe, and Bobby Kennedy a Chickering. Other Aeolian pianos, built at seven plants in the U.S. and Canada, include Mason & Hamlin, Fischer, Pianola, Weber, George Steck, Duo-Art, Cable, Hardman Peck, Winter, Kranich & Bach, Ivers & Pond and Mason & Risch...