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Five well-know ministers from different denominations were to assist Peabody--among them Edward Everett Hale and Phillips Brooks. Each of the University Preachers conducted daily prayers and Sunday services for six weeks, and held daily office hours in Wadsworth House for consultation with students...
After one stay at Wadsworth House, Phillips Brooks reported that he consulted with over 150 students. Another minister reported that "he had had more serious conversation in Wadsworth than he had ever had in the same amount of time in his professional life...
...ritual in the traditional robes, white-thatched New England Poet Robert Frost, 82, will be given honorary degrees next month by both Cambridge and Oxford-one of the few Americans to be so honored in recent times. Other Americans to receive the same double distinction: Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1868 and Poet-Diplomat James Russell Lowell in 1873. Said Poet Frost: "I guess you could say this caps my career. After all, I've written only one book-one book of about 600 pages. That's about ten pages a year over a 60-year period...
...Vienna, as U.S. representative to the new International Atomic Energy Agency, Deputy U.S. Representative to the U.N. James J. Wadsworth. A onetime (1931-41) Republican member of the New York State legislature, Wadsworth, 51, served in a variety of federal executive posts (e.g., ECA, Civil Defense) before Ike appointed him to the U.N. in 1953, is a logical choice for the new job: at the U.N., Ambassador Wadsworth was the key U.S. negotiator in the talks that set up the agency...
...touting of Marxist-Leninist heroes, the U.S.S.R.'s Soviet Culture pounced upon none other than Poet Henry Wadsworth (Paul Revere's Ride) Longfellow, ballyhooed him as "a humanitarian who condemned war and demanded its abolition . . . one of the most beloved . . . poets in the world, despite attempts by modern bourgeois critics to knock him from his pedestal...