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...could not be learned who von Stade's successor in the Scholarship Office will be. The two immediate successors are von Stade's assistants. David D. Henry and Francis Parkman, Jr. Although both have been in the Scholarship Office only since last spring, they are considered well qualified by University Hall officials to succeed von Stade...
Harold Ockenga has kept the old fires burning. Shocked at the goings-on under Boston Common's shadowy trees during the long summer evenings, he made it a practice to preach from the Parkman bandstand after his regular vesper services. When city authorities refused to renew his permit, he had an outdoor pulpit built on to the church, from which he and his assistants regularly address the Common's assortment of bums, tarts, sailors, tourists and Harvard boys...
Some of the mysteries, Altick admits, have been solved more by chance than by special cunning. Biographer Mason Wade unearthed the Western journals of Francis Parkman by going to the historian's old home in Boston and rummaging through his desk. Usually, however, the scholar's quest takes a good deal more ingenuity...
Boston Common will again ring with carols at 4:30 p.m. today when the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Social give their second joint Christmas carol concert of the year from the Parkman Bandstand. The singing, sponsored by the Boston Christmas Festival, will last for about 30 minutes...
...gypsy in the University, camping at one time in the chem labs and later on in the Bursar's office. Harvard had not been the world's most congenial patron for the art. Puritan distrust of music as a rootlet of evil lingered on throughout the 19th century: Francis Parkman was said to have ended his yearly budget report at the Corporation with "Musica Delenda Est." By 1914, however, most of this sinfulness seemed to have worn off, and music was looked on, at worst, as a useless frill...