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...Prof. John H. Finley, Jr. '25, a member of the Faculty Athletic Committee, presented the theory that "football represents the essence of modern times." Today's football strategy "symbolizes the superimposition of the intellect on the physique which is the basic antithesis of our age," he claimed...
...with Hiawatha and spreading chestnut trees, but Harvard had given him a chair of languages and literature and even by exacting standards he might have been called a catch. But it was seven years before Fanny could bring herself to say yes to the man she bitingly called "the Prof...
Critic Into Wife. The fact is that Fanny did not rate Henry very highly as a poet. "The Prof has collected all his vagrant poems into a neat little volume christened mournfully Voices of the Night. He does not look like a nightbird and is more of a mocking-bird than a nightingale . . ." And when he published his next volume: "The Professor has a creamy new volume of verses out . . . the cream of thought being somewhat thinner than that of the binding." But when, in 1843, Fanny finally said yes. she loyally ended her role as one of Henry...
...Longfellow is pre-eminently a woman's book, and the picture that slowly emerges of a thoroughly charming and civilized lady is one that most contemporary women might well envy. Life with Henry was not exciting, but it had its compensations. ''The Prof read and wrote and taught, and as his fame grew the Longfellows entertained most of the famous writers in flowering New England-Hawthorne, Lowell, Emerson. Fanny always saw them plain, just as she had once seen Henry. Emerson's fame could not keep her from writing: "Where has his humanity gone, I wonder...
Outwardly, Eero (pronounced arrow) Saarinen (rhymes with far-'n-then) looks like a country family doctor, dresses with the casualness of a young college prof, prefers to live clear of the cities, in the rolling countryside of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (pop. 2,100), 18 miles from downtown Detroit. His headquarters is a simply constructed, often cluttered office shed he designed for himself, just two minutes' drive from his home over winding country roads. Even with an office staff of 43, Saarinen's is a small operation by comparison with the major U.S. architectural organizations, e.g., Skidmore, Owings...