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...Eliot spoke first of the appropriateness of honoring the name of Francis Parkman in a place so closely connected with his memory as Cambridge. It was in the wild country on the north side of the city that there was born within him that strong love for nature that characterizes all his writings. Prevented by ill health from concentrating his energies entirely upon his vocation, he took up horticulture as an avocation and was eminently successful, especially in the cultivation of lilies and roses. Francis Parkman was the first professor of horticulture in Harvard University. He was also for some...
John Fiske began his remarks by speaking of the revelation which Francis Parkman's works bring to one who has been accustomed to giving American history little importance compared with ancient and mediaval history. America has its classic events and classic places which need but a magician's touch to...
Tonight a service will be held in Sanders Theatre in commemoration of Francis Parkman, whose recent death took from among the list of Harvard graduates a name which always stood for honor and uprightness and purity of life. During his life Mr. Parkman was always looked upon as a man...
The remaining two contributions are in lighter vein,- "A Virginian," by Henry Copley Greene, and "A Story with an Immoral," by Charles M. Flandrau. Of these, the latter is decidedly the best, perhaps gaining some-what by contrast with the only other piece of fiction, but at least showing clever...
WANTED.- PRIVATE TUTOR.- A wellbred young gentlemen of high character, a first rate teacher, companionable and tactful, to prepare boy for college (classical department); 6, possibly 18 months' engagement beginning January 1, 1894, in Washington, D. C. All expenses paid and liberal salary. Time given to tutor, if desired, to...