Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...correspondence between John Sterling and Ralph Waldo Emerson has just been published by Houghton, Miffilin and Company, together with a sketch of Sterling's life by Edward Waldo Emerson. Though Sterling and Emerson never saw each other, there was a warm friendship between them,- a friendship of letters it might be called. A likeness in what they wrote, as in the events of their lives, seemed to make them fitted for one another. Emerson had already been attracted by the other's work when he received a letter from Carlyle, telling of Sterling's admiration for him. Emerson therewith sent...
...should rather have the friendship of one fellow in the University who knew of this act and forgave it than the friendship of the whole University if this friendship was based on ignorance of the facts. I wished to write this letter before leaving Cambridge, when I first saw the demands for my name in the CRIMSON, but there were others to be thought of. I now find that these others feel as I do and will stand by me. I am therefore at liberty to follow my own inclination in the matter. Until I knew this I felt that...
...committee went to the source of this information and found that the man who said that he saw "a prominent member of the class of 1898" do the painting denies that there is any truth in the statement. Furthermore, we have as yet found no one that knows who did the painting...
...opening, Major Higginson spoke of the feeling of the country while, in the years before the war, it lay preparing for the struggle which in one way or another had to come. With the election of Lincoln, and the secession of one southern state after another, the country saw that the beginning of the end had come at last. Men went to the front not because they were called on or because they had to, but because it was the one thing they wanted...
...that a most healthy interest has been aroused, which augurs well for the future of Harvard rowing. While the outcome of the race was not in doubt after the first mile, yet it was well-contested and interesting. There can be no doubt in the minds of those who saw the race that the best crew won, and the Ninety-nine crew is to be congratulated on its deserved victory...