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...great many famous people have traded with Billings and Stover. Nearly all the big names in Harvard history for the past eighty-five years are recorded in the prescription books, of which there are 112. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had a prescription filed once for stomach trouble. All the Roosevelts, too, from the elder Kermit and Teddy on down to our contemporaries, have been regular customers. Mr. Mahoney speaks of Norman Prince, who was the first American to die with the Lafayette Escadrille. And Mr. Justice Frankfurter, though now in Washington, still keeps his account at Billings and Stover. Only...
...that time, Dr. Butler's faculty had begun to get the point. They knew well that 23 years before, Dr. Butler had made a similar pronouncement, had fired Professors James McKeen Cattell and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana* for extracurricular opposition to U. S. participation in World War I. Dr. Butler perorated...
...college started out with quarters in ordinary houses, as explained by the tablets on the 1859 Gate and just inside the Porcellian Gate, and indicated by brick gammidae in the pavement south of Wadsworth House. Wadsworth House was built in the eighteenth century, but the presence of that old house is a reminiscence of the character of this part of Cambridge in its earliest days. The town stretched casually down the pleasant southerly slope toward the river, being divided into many individual plots. The primitive buildings have vanished, but the subdivision into numerous small plots, and the casual arrangement, still...
When the Old College was built, on the site of Grays Hall, it was on the northern side of town, and it looked across a little "Yard" to the back of the old houses just as Grays does to the back of Wadsworth. The Old College of 1642 was itself much like an enlarged edition of a house, as the model in Hunt Hall shows...
Full information about the courses can be obtained from the office of the Commission on Extension Courses, Wadsworth House...