Word: wright
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...funeral of Dean Wright will be held in Appleton Chapel today at 12 o'clock. Professor F. G. Peabody '69 will officiate and the following will act as honorary pallbearers: Professor W. G. Hale of Chicago, Professors E. D. Perry and J. R. Wheeler of Columbia, Professors T. Peck and B. Perrin of Yale, President Charles W. Eliot, Professor John W. White, Ph.D. '77, Professor Charles R. Lanman, Professor Herbert W. Smyth '78, Professor Morris H. Morgan '81, Professor Clifford H. Moore '89, and Mr. George W. Robinson '95. The pallbearers will be the following eight men from the Graduate...
Harvard mourns the loss of one of her most faithful servants. John Henry Wright, professor of Greek and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, passed away at his residence in Cambridge, on Wednesday, November...
...following appreciation of Dean Wright's work and character was written at the request of the CRIMSON by Professor Herbert Weir Smyth...
...zeal, his steadfast fidelity, and his liberal and sagacious administration. Hundreds of graduate students recall with pleasure the genial address of welcome which he gave at the beginning of each academic year; and many knew, long after they left the University, that he was still their friend. For Professor' Wright had, in a measure rarely granted even to lovable men, the power of awakening affection. No one who met him in the mere casual relations of life could fail to be impressed with his sincerity; while to those who were privileged to know him intimately he endeared himself in countless...
...think of Professor Wright as a scholar distinguished for learning and fine taste; as an editor of books and important philological and archaeological journals; or as a successful administrator and devoted teacher. One may think of all these things: I think of him now as a man "amans, amabilis, amatus...