Cambridge Honors Longfellow Centennial With Children’s Hour
Cambridge marked the Longfellow centennial with a Children’s Hour at Kirkland Street in Harvard's lecture hall. Thousands of local children attended morning and evening events, heard readings from his works, and viewed a notable Longfellow collection at the Cambridge Library.
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Cambridge
Sanders Theatre
Harvard
Kirkland Street
Henry W. Longfellow
Longfellow
Harvard Square
Craigie House
Ode to the Poet at Sanders Theatre
Longfellow poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich for the occasion recited by C P Copeland. The composed verse sees the poet endure beyond death through living words and memory, praising his presence with readers and associating him with comfort at the fireside.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Sanders Theatre
C.P. Copeland
Longfellow in Evangeline Land lecture by Rev Henry R Rose
Boston society guests attended an illustrated talk at Huntington Chambers Hall on Longfellow in Evangeline Land. Rev Henry R Rose showed pictures tracing scenes from the poet life and from Nova Scotia and Canada while praising Longfellow as a universal poet who spoke to plain people.
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Craigie
Cambridge
Longfellow
Sanders Theatre
Boston
Huntington Chambers Hall
Henry R. Rose
Evangeline Land
Nova Scotia
Canada
Rose
Alvin R. Bailey
Arthur Astor Carey
Edwin Upton Curtis
Party of
Edmund Brainerd Cowles
Micah Dyer
Daniel Lothrop
Louise Chandler Moulton
Evelyn F. Masury
Edwin Mead
Josiah Quincy
Whiton Stone
Henry Tudor
Frederick P. Vinton
Sarah Fisher Wellington
James A. Frye
Silvio M. Gizzaldi
Charles Gibson
Edward A. Horton
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Lillian Shuman Dreyfus
Augustus L. Thorndike
Cora E. Burt
Longfellow Letter Reveals Banquet In Cambridge
The Rev. O F Safford holds the original last public letter from Henry W Longfellow written in 1882 to Rev Lucius Paige of Cambridge regarding his 80th birthday banquet. The piece praises local histories as foundations of general history. Boston University marked the Longfellow centennial with midday exercises in Sleeper Hall led by faculty and deans and with songs and brief addresses.
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Peabody
O. F. Safford
Longfellow
Lucius R. Paige
Cambridge
Dr. Paige
Paige
Henry W. Longfellow
Oscar F. Safford
University College of Liberal Arts
Jacob Sleeper
FE. Charlton Black
William FE. Huntington
John P. Marshall
Dean Warren
College of Liberal Arts
Dean Rishell
Theological School
Clamor for Admission to Sanders Theatre
A ceremonial gathering honors Longfellow with readings by William Dean Howells’s absent address read by Bliss Perry. Norton opens with praise for Longfellow’s life and poetry, noting his influence on Cambridge and the worldwide reach of his spirit. Higginson recalls how ordinary workers know his poems by heart, far beyond literary circles.
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William Dean Howells
Bliss Perry
The
Atlantic Monthly
Norton
Longfellow
Cambridge
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Tennyson
Browning
Women Honor Longfellow at Boston Club Birthday
The Boston Political Club observed Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 100th birthday at 6 Marlboro Street. President Flora D. Sampson presided as members spoke on his early, middle, and later life. Members read poems including selections by Mrs. Sherman, Read, Savage, and Goodman.
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Boston Political Club
Marlboro Street
Henry W. Lonegfellow
Flora D. Sampson
L. F. Edwards
Florence Phelps
George H. Hicks
Longfellow
E. M. Sherman
A. I. Read
A. W. Savage
E. J. Goodman
First Boston Austrian Hungarian Association Ball
The ith annual fancy dress ball of the First Boston Austrian-Hungarian Association will be held at Odd Fellows Hall tonight. It coincides with Purim night and is a major social event among Boston Hebrews. Joseph Witt chairs the committee with I Spigel secretary and Harry M. Ticknor treasurer. Witt and his wife will lead the grand march.
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Odd Fellows’ Hall
Joseph Witt
I. Spigel
Harry M. Ticknor
Witt
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