Word: longfellow
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...United States. The graduate schools of arts and sciences of today are modelled on the German universities of 1820, and it was Harvard College and Harvard men who took the lead in the development of the modern graduate school. Mr. Long's essays on Ticknor, Everett, Cogswell, Longfellow, Bancroft, and Motley are this not only chapters in the history of faste and scholarship in this country but are also chapters, and important ones, in Harvard history...
...Bancroft was not so uncritically enthusiastic as his predecessors had been. Ticknor had written that there was more "absolute learning in Germany than in all the rest of the world besides." But Bancroft was too fastidious to find the unkempt German students congenial, agreeing with the sentiments of Longfellow's mother, who wrote her son when he contemplated a period of study abroad that, from all accounts, the Goettingen students were "very licentious, unrestrained by the government, and addicted to duclling." The professors too, in Bancroft's opinion, were anything but gentlemen in the New England sense. They were learned...
What is most important, however, is that they all come back from their Goettingen discipline, and their visits to Goethe (Cogswell persuaded Goethe to give a set of his works to the Harvard Library) to plant the seeds of German academic culture in this country. Ticknor and Longfellow were the first and second incumbents of the chair later distinguished by James Russell Lowell and Bliss Perry. Mr. Long treats the academic influence of the pioneers fully. These are, it is worth repeating, significant chapters in the history of education in the United States...
...spring, busts of Winners Penn, Newcomb & Cleveland will be placed in the care of the Hall of Fame's 82-year-old director, Robert Underwood Johnson, poet and onetime (1920-21) Ambassador to Italy, whose white whiskers compare in bushiness with those of such inmates as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Samuel F. B. Morse and new Simon Newcomb...
...schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; . . . Thus, nearly 100 years ago, did Longfellow begin his famed ballad of the wreck of the Hesperus on the reef of Norman's Woe. Last week, another schooner Hesperus, hailing from Gloucester, a few miles north of Norman's Woe, was sailing the sea off Cape Cod when...