Word: wadsworth
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Last night a meeting was held in Sanders Theatre, under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow h.'59, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish languages and literatures, and Professor of Belles Lettres, in the University from 1836 to 1854. Sanders Theatre was crowded to the utmost so that many were forced to stand, and many others could not gain admittance. Professor C. E. Norton '46, chairman of the assembly, opened the meeting by a short address, which is printed in full below. The other speakers...
...Forty years ago today the Boston Daily Advertiser contained some verses addressed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on his birthday. They were signed with the initials of his neighbor, friend and brother poet, Lowell. The second stanza read as follows...
...drove his housemaids to despair by insisting on the admittance of the poorest children in Cambridge to tramp through his study daily or to sit triumphantly in the chair which their little subscriptions had bought for him. This was the man whom we meet to commemorate: this was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...hundredth anniversary of the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow h.'59 is to be celebrated in Cambridge today under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society and a committee of citizens and members of the University...
Seniors are requested to submit a hymn to be sung to some familiar tune at the baccalaureate services. Such hymns should be sent to D. J. Field, Wadsworth 5, before March 19. CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...