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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040829
Author:Michael Kenney

[PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Friday, September 3, 2004: Correction: Because of a reporting error, a review in Sunday's Books section of biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow incorrectly described Franklin Pierce, before his presidency, as a senator from Maine; he was a senator from New Hampshire.)

At the Bowdoin College commencement on Sept. 25, 1825, the senior class speaker was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Among the other 36 members of the class, all seated by a grove of pine and fir, was Nathaniel Hawthorne.

From that coincidence of time and place framed by ...

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