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...following article about Professor Norton was written for the Crimson by G. H. Browne '78, founder and for 45 years head master of the Browne and Nichols School, and an early disciple and a lifelong friend of Professor Norton...
...Norton's interest in education in the college was hardly more keen than his interest in education in the schools. In both his chief concern was the cultivation of the imagination. I have in mind not only the inestimable value of his active cooperation and wise counsel to the school which, at his request, was established in Cambridge to provide opportunities for his own boys; but also a bit of personal experience in that connection which throws a significant light on his character...
...conversation then turned on the editor of the next I happened to have brought. "That man never had a generous or unselfish motive in his life; and you will never live to see him have one." I never knew of Mr. Norton's acting from any other motive. He not only read out loud at home every evening; he offered every family in the land choice material for similar reading; every Sunday he read to the inmates of the Hospital for Incurables, not Tar from Shady Hill.... To describe Charles Eliot Norton in a single phrase, I should...
Chief among the many gifts of rare volumes presented to Widener Library in commemoration of the Centenary is the entire collection retained by the Norton family, from which the Library may choose at its own discretion. Professor P. J. Sachs '60, Professor C. N. Greenough '98, and Professor G. L. Kittredge 92, together with many graduates and undergraduates, have sent gift-volumes, many of which are on display in the Treasure Room...
Professor Kittredge has presented to the Library a book which Professor Norton gave him in 1903, in which is contained the first edition of the "Wade Fragment," a sixteenth century reference to a tale used by Chaucer...