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Donald C. Watson, Jr. '41, manager of the Varsity crew, announced yesterday that a dinner will be given Friday, night at 7:30 o'clock in the Harvard Club in honor of last year's rowing team. Robert F. Herrick, '90, who was coach of the victorious Henley crew in 1914, will sponsor the event...
...athletic, introspective, drawn to people "who are not worth while." At Harvard he read Shelley and Wordsworth, was complimented by Santayana for a deeply philosophical remark: "All girls are beautiful." Post-graduate study in Europe included art museums, mistresses, drinking, sightseeing, conversation, desultory reading. Said young Novelist Robert Herrick one day: "Hutch, you don't do a damned thing, do you?" Like many another obtuse observer, says Hapgood, Herrick was apparently correct. But "if I wasn't busy, something was busy with...
...stranded-he had his first taste of public adulation and it was good. He had done something which, after it was done, his logical mind could perceive, was reasonable occasion for acclaim. He had the time of his life standing on the Aero Club balcony with Ambassador Herrick and waving flags at the crowd below. When he returned to the U. S. after visiting the capitals of Europe and rode, up Fifth Avenue in a paper shower, he knew that he had hit the jackpot, and he was willing to enjoy it while it lasted. He had no idea that...
...Lanky Herrick Allen is at 2 with Fred Koenig, sculling champion of the University, manning the bow oar. Whitney Dalzell is again doing the steering...
After twenty-one years of teaching at Harvard, John Livingston Lowes has given his last lecture, Yesterday at noon, he walked into Sever 11, ascended the rostrum, and gave a short talk on Robert Herrick, the seventeenth century lyricist. Thus with the gay lines of the poet, he wrote "Finis" to his long career as one of the foremost scholars of his time a career that is remarkable in its contribution to learning. Dr. Lowes, apart from having gained invaluable experience in colleges throughout the country, has written many books on English Literature. His "The Road to Xanadu...