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Distinguished Visitors
At Women's College
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of the old world, he adapted him
self to life in a new democracy.
Longfellow gave to his country
men a sight of the purple bloom,
Whit of the enchanting air of the
old world; then faced about to
show that the material that lies
close at hand in the new world is
as good as that of an older time.
He created a demand for poetry
in thousands of homes where it be-
fore had been unknown" DR.. EN-
erson mentioned as Longfellow's
best work the "Tales of a Wayside
Inn," drawn from the lore of many
centuries. "A day would hardly
serve to tell" DR.. Emerson said,
"of Longfellow's hospitality. His
beautiful home, overlooking the
Charles in Cambridge, is visited
by thousands every year. Recent
ly provision has been made to
carry out the plan which Longfel-
low himself originated, of keeping
the view clear to the river. The
poet believed that the Ideal is the
only Real, but he was human
enough to know that none of us
can reach it. If Longfellow is not
a star of the first magnitude,
neither is the north star, yet it is
recognized and loved by millions
throughout the earth"
The speaker discussed Lowell
as a critic and as teacher. "As
a critic Lowell was often unfair,
but always shrewd," he said. Gas
a teacher he was inspiring and
helpful. Lowell had to recoil from
puritanism, but he did not fail to
preserve all of the fire of it,
DR.. Emerson referred to Low
ellis writings in dialect, which re-
fleet the country's very life-its
spirit, speech, and heart, at the
same time revealing Lowell, the
scholar of the old world. The
speaker referred also to the benef-
icent influence of woman in Low
els life, and related instances of
him in the Adirondacks, where he
entered eagerly into tests of ply
sical endurance that he might in
every respect measure up to the
stature of man. Late in life
Lowell dared to leave the Repub-
lican party, because it no longer
measured up to the standard he
had expected of it. He shared and
helped in the literary awakening
of America. He found the college
narrow and provincial; he helped
in lifting it to a greater and wider
usefulness DR.. Emerson refer
red to Lowelrs work on the Allan
tic Monthly, and in closing declar-
ed, "He did his country honor,
and won honor for himself"
DR.. Emerson, who is a physician
was himself one of the Boys"
who gathered day after day in the
laboratory to be taught by DR..
Holmes. To all of the latter's
titles, DR.. Emerson declared,
should have been added that of
Doctor of Humanity. Holmes
classes" the speaker said, "were
always crowded, not because of
any special interest in the subjects
he taught, bat because of the
wonderful personality of the
teacher. He constantly betrayed
his pupils, by sparkling channels,
into deeper basins, IN which they
learned to swim; he continually
startled their tagging attention
with wonderful remarks, which the
most careless could not afford to
miss. DR.. Holmes ever chose to
speak to the lower half of his
class, as those who needed it most.
In later years Holmes by his
literary work created for himself
a chair with thousands in Europe
and America on the benches. He
welded a power which became
known throughout Harvard, Cam