Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard mourns the loss of one of her most faithful servants. John Henry Wright, professor of Greek and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, passed away at his residence in Cambridge, on Wednesday, November...
...made Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and held that position until his death. Under the guidance of Dean Wright, the Graduate School has attained a position of great importance. His personal interest in the individual students has been one of his most marked qualities. During the last few years his failing health has prevented his continuing his literary career, and he has devoted his entire time to the Graduate School...
...One of his most prolonged and difficult labors was his work as editor of "A History of All Nations," published in 24 volumes and contributed to by the most eminent historians in Europe and America. He has also written many articles of importance for classical and archaeological magazines. He was at one time secretary, and later president, of the American Philological Association, his work bringing him into wide acquaintance with the other great philologists of America. For ten years he was editor of the American Journal of Archaeology; he has likewise edited the Classical Quarterly and the Classical Review...
...genial address of welcome which he gave at the beginning of each academic year; and many knew, long after they left the University, that he was still their friend. For Professor' Wright had, in a measure rarely granted even to lovable men, the power of awakening affection. No one who met him in the mere casual relations of life could fail to be impressed with his sincerity; while to those who were privileged to know him intimately he endeared himself in countless ways. Of the affectionate regard in which his friends held him I do not trust myself to write...
...spent himself and his powers, without stint and without thought of self, for the welfare of Harvard, which he loved as if he had been one of her own sons; no demand upon his time seemed inopportune; no appeal to his sympathies failed to meet with a quick and generous response. He was a doer of things that make the heart glad, and the number of his kindnesses is known only to the many whom he has helped in word and deed. He felt happy in doing many things, for his loyalty of service had no taint of partiality...