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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conclusion, President Lowell read parts of letters from Major Higginson, and ended with the tribute: "As he said in a letter that I have just quoted, the dead die that a new generation may come along and put its ideas into force, and in time they will pass and another generation come along...
...Beta Kappa Society was founded at William and Mary College in 1776, and is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America. It aims to gather together those men whose first interest is in scholarship and intellectual pursuits. The Harvard chapter, established in 1779, comprises among its undergraduates presidents such men as John Quincy Adams 1787, James Russell Lowell '38, Edward Everett Hale '39; Oliver Wendell Holmes '29, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41; and among its orators and poets Charles Sumner '30, Wendell Phillips '31, William Cullen Bryant '59, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '59, Henry Ward Beecher 1821, Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...objections to this process are for the most part surmountable. The blurred appearance of the letters can be remedied by improvement of typewriter type. Hitherto it has not been profitable for manufacturers of typewriters to prepare type as carefully as in printing, but this new demand for accurate typewriters will result in the necessary improvement. As for the uneveness of typewritten manuscript, due to the uniform space allowed for each letter regardless of its width, there are at present patents in Washington for differential feed typewriters--that is, typewriters which allow a different space for each width of letter...
...Spading has misunderstood me. And as the CRIMSON entitles his letter "A Good Answer," I dare infer that others have also...
...Your letter of August 18th has come, complaining that your books, instruments and other private scientific property have been retained by the French Government at Strassburg, and asking me to use my Influence to procure their return...