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...Officers were dispatched to a report of an individual screaming at Longfellow Hall. Officers arrived and searched the area and then reported that all was quiet and in order...
Were former Harvard professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow alive today, he would have 200 candles to blow out on his very large birthday cake. Even before the famous poet earned worldwide acclaim for his romantic verses, he taught foreign languages at Harvard and schmoozed with the Cambridge literati of the day. Thus his birthday is garnering special attention on campus, as well as across the city and the nation. A LONG LEGACY Succeeding George Ticknor, Longfellow became the second Smith professor of modern languages in 1836 and laid much of the foundation for comparative language study at Harvard. He often battled...
Nevertheless, two of the most influential early American poets—Henry David Thoreau 1837 and Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821—went to Harvard, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a professor here for years. Harvard was the most obvious college for the second great generation of American poets. One of T.S. Eliot’s cousins was Charles Eliot 1853, President of Harvard, and E.E. Cummings’ father was a professor...
Several suspicious packages found in the greater Boston area yesterday prompted a bomb scare that shut down Longfellow Bridge and parts of Interstate 93. The hysteria eased, however, when investigators discovered that the packages were in fact part of an outdoor Turner Broadcasting marketing campaign. The network had placed the packages to promote Adult Swim’s animated television show, “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” according to a statement from Turner reported in The Boston Globe. The statement said the packages were “magnetic lights that pose no danger...
...while the initial shock of the defeat was stunning—a chant of “Howl! Howl! Howl!” was heard on Longfellow Bridge—a little time has provided us with much needed perspective in facing the consequences of our loss...