The following item of news appeared recently in one of the Boston papers :
"The London Longfellow Memorial Committee have decided to send copies of the Westminster Abbey bust of Longfellow to Harvard and Bowdoin colleges."
If true, and there seems to be no reason for doubting that it is, this is indeed appropriate. For it is with these two colleges that the name of Longfellow is so intimately associated,-as a student at Bowdoin, and a professor at Harvard. Further, it is pleasing to be recipients of a copy of the bust of him who is the first of Americans to be honored by a niche in the "poet's corner" of the famous English abbey. Harvard, for her part, will receive gratefully this tribute to the memory of him who was so long connected with it and who remained till the end a resident near her classic shades.
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