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Light Without Heat. The chill autumn of New England was mellowed by the light of great minds too. But it was a light without much warmth. Heroes of New England: Indian Summer are Henry & William James, Henry Adams, Howells, Francis Parkman. "They knew they were doomed to fight their fights alone, in a world that was more than likely to divide and destroy them. Some, like Henry Adams, were all but born discouraged. Others, like Henry James, were to spend ten years trying to solve the question where to live. . . . William James and Howells, who had come from the West...
...dozen languages before he entered Harvard where he added Hebrew, Sanskrit, Gothic, Icelandic, Rumanian, Dutch. "His methodical, orderly mind moved like a stone-crusher, reducing the boulders of thought to a flow of gravel that anyone could build a mental road with." Evolution was his religion. There was Francis Parkman, who had been over the Oregon Trail. Life in the West had destroyed his digestion and given him chronic insomnia. Arthritis crippled him. A nervous disorder "engulfed his mind." He had published The Conspiracy of Pontiac. It was 14 years before he could publish the next volume of his "history...
...Bradlee, Millar Brainard, William B. Breed, Henry P. Briggs, Frederick W. Brune, Francis W. Capper, Boughton Cobb, Robert C. Cobb, Charles R. Codman, Kenneth J. Conant, James F. Conway, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Donald C. Cottrell, Paul G. Courtney; Henry DeFord, Jr., Eben Henry McB. Parker, William A. Parker, Henry Parkman. Jr., Ronald L. Redmond, Edward Reynolds, Junius A. Richards, John Rock, H. W. Dwight Rudd, Philip H. Sherwood, David R. Sigourney, Joseph P. Spang, Jr., Henry S. Strurgis, Ernest G. Swigert, William S. Draper, Roger C. Fenn, John S. Fleek, Robert T. Gannett, Joseph Garland, James M. Graham, Reginald Gray...
...undergraduate members of the committee who are working on the drive are G. Parkman Denny, Jr. '41, Benjamin O. Gardiner '43, Thomas Gardiner '42, Morris Gray '43, Joseph R. Hamlen, Jr. '43, Julian H. Richardson '43, H. Richardson Shepley, Jr. '42, and Henry G. Simonds...
...Francis Parkman fellowship to Pitt S. Willand 1G, of Batavia...