Word: longfellow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by George Healy, the property of Mrs. A. V. S. Anthony, of West Newton, has recently been placed on exhibition on the south wall above the piano in the Living Room of the Union...
English, 9 to 12.30, Warren House; 2.30 to 4.30, Longfellow Park...
Warren House; 2.30 to 4.30, Longfellow Park...
...young minor poet of today, the Sinclair type, who thinks only of himself, his woes, joys, experiences (the more degrading the better) and sneers at the old masters, who wrote of the world and the ideal and Heaven, as "philistines". Can any good come out of Longfellow and Whittier, they cry, as they make themselves drunken with the scented, perishable cadences of a Wilde of a Dowson. If Mr. Wilson were to start a Society for the Abolition of the Ego in Minor Poets, he would have a large membership...
While the Faculty of the present day are the most perfect instructors, it is supposed that some leadership, of a supreme order, might be of service to Harvard, and through Harvard to the country. Older graduates remember, gratefully, the good they gained from James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, and other leaders of men, who were lecturers, and the regret they felt that Harvard did not employ John Fiske, J. H. Choate, J. C. Carter, George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, J. L. Motley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. H. Prescott, and others like them, as regular lecturers...