Word: longfellow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Russia will act as toastmaster with John Silas Reed '10, the well-known war correspondent and author, as the principal speaker. Among the guests of honor will be Professors Dupriez and Poussin, formerly of the University of Louvain, G. W. Cram '88, W. R. Thayer '81, A. W. Longfellow '76, J. L. Butler, business manager of the Yale Record, R. C. Benchley '12, a former president of the Lampoon, and K. S. Kate '09, a former editor of the CRIMSON. The University Quartet will be present and will sing several selections...
There are few more appalling, pernicious, and thoroughly reprehensible tendencies in modern times than banner bearing. In the light of modern investigation we clearly see that the young man in Longfellow's poem, "Excelsior," who bore a "banner with a strange device," was a dangerous fellow, who richly deserved to be lost among the snowy peaks, banner and all; that Betsy Ross should have devoted her time to knitting mufflers; that Barbara Freitchie was a foolish lady to risk her old gray head; in short that banners should be scrupulously eschewed -- especially red ones...
...statue of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is to be unveiled this afternoon at 3 o'clock in Longfellow Park, Cambridge. The chief speaker of the occasion will be President Eliot who will deliver an address after the unveiling of the memorial...
...monument is the work of Mr. Daniel Chester French, sculptor, and Mr. Henry Bacon, architect. It is located in the centre of the Longfellow Memorial Park which extends south from Brattle street to Mt. Auburn street, opposite the Longfellow home. The structure is a bas-relief in Knoxville pink marble, representing six figures of characters taken from the poets best known works, in front of which is set on a projecting pedestal, a bronze portrait bust of Longfellow. The most interesting part of the statue is the bas-relief in the marble slab, depicting Miles Standish, Sandalphon, the village blacksmith...
...Unveiling of Longfellow statue in Longfellow Park...