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...blessings with which heaven may endow a community, there is none greater than the habitual presence in it of a good and pleasant man or woman, and this blessing is immeasurably enhanced when to goodness and pleasantness is added the gift of genius which makes its possessor a special object of admiration and of general interest; and if this genius finds its expression in verse addressed not only to the comparative few of highly cultivated intelligence, but through its breadth of sympathy and through its musical expression of simple elementary moral sentiments appealing to the vast multitude of common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONGFELLOW CENTENARY | 2/28/1907 | See Source »

...valuable notes of my own, but also references belonging to Professor H. L. Smyth, which he used in connection with a course on mining methods. The failure to return the note-book is inexcusable, for it bore my name and address, and came into the hands of the present possessor through his own careless mistake. Yours very truly, E. E. WHITE, Assistant in Mining and Metallurgy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 12/20/1906 | See Source »

Professor Kuehnemann has been recognized as the possessor of unusual oratorical powers. He made a lecturing tour of the United States last fall in the course of which he spoke in the Fogg Art Museum on "Gerhart Hauptmann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Kuehnemann to Lecture | 9/28/1906 | See Source »

...that we have at times been accused of a lack of college spirit? The University is too large, now, for one man to be familiar with the whole of it, so surely the next best thing is acquaintance with its past history, an acquaintance close enough to give its possessor a feeling of pride and loyalty obtainable in no other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Suggestion for University Lectures. | 5/3/1901 | See Source »

Yale and Princeton will hold a shoot within the next thirty days to decide which of the two colleges will become the possessor of the "Fishing and Shooting" trophy. By the conditions under which the trophy was offered it will go to that college that wins it the greatest number of times in five years. Princeton and Yale have each won twice and Harvard once, so the deciding shoot will be held this month. The exact date has not yet been decided, but the choice of ground has been given to Yale and the shoot will probably be held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale-Princeton Shoot. | 6/8/1897 | See Source »

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