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Harvard men will be astonished to learn from the Chicago Herald that the song, "Fair Harvard," was written by the poet Whittier, and first read at the late Harvard jubilee...
...Atlantic Monthly for February continues a continuation of the joint story by Mrs. Oliphant and Mr. Aldrich. Whittier presents a pleasing poem, "A Day." Crawford continues Paul Platoff and John Fiske with his usual clearness offers an admirable paper on "The Federal Convention." The most notable paper, however, is the long expected poem by James Russell Lowell, "Credidimus Jovem Regnare." Among other papers are "Two Serious Books" by Harriet Waters Preston. "A Bird of Affairs" by Olive Thorne Miller and the first part of a story, "The Lady from Maine," by Lawrence Saxe. Mr. Winter and Mr. Langdon and Susan...
...meeting of the Longfellow Memorial Association, held Saturday evening at the house of Mr. Arthur Gilman on Watertown street, Cambridge, Dean G. Z. Gray presiding, the following officers were elected: President, James Russell Lowell; vice-presidents, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John G. Whittier, Charles W. Eliot, Stanton Blake, E. N. Horsford; secretary, Arthur Gilman; treasurer, Benjamin Vaughn; committee on plans, James R. Lowell, Asa Gray, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Van Brunt, John Trowbridge, W. P. P. Longfellow; board of directors, James Russell Lowell, Arthur Gilman, Benjamin Vaughn, William Eustis Russell, Francis C. Foster, James B. Ames, H. P. Walcott, William Lawrence...
...Constitution" by A. D. Lowell, "An American Soldier in China" by A. A. Hayer, "A Rhapsody of Clouds," "A Half-Score New Novelists," and "John Brown." There is also a short story, "Salem Cupboards," by Eleanor Putnam, and among the several other poems a contribution entitled "The Homestead," by Whittier...
...collegiate men in the lists of authorship is greater to-day than it was in that indefinite period known as 'before the war.' Making a list hastily of well-known authors, setting their names down as they occur to us, it appears that Irving, Poe, Cooper and Whittier are almost the only names of men of the first rank who did not have a college education. Bryant began a college course, but was compelled to discontinue it. Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Emerson, Thoreau, Willis, Prescott, Bancroft. Motley, the two Danas, were all college...