page_title: George Herbert Palmer
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: George Herbert Palmer / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Alice Freeman Palmer memorial by Daniel Chester French Identifier: internationalstu46newy (find matches) Title: International studio Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament Publisher: New York Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: nch was engagedwhen I last visited him at Glendale, represent thefour continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, andAmerica, from all of which presumably (since theMcKinley tariff) the New York Customs claim some slight pecuniary assistance. Perhaps themost attractive among these groups are, not in-appropriately, America and Europe. The former,a seated female figure, with something ardent anduncompromising in her very attitude, has behindher an Indian who bends over her shoulder&#160;; whileEurofie, a queenly being, enthroned and crowned,has as her comrade or attendant the shroudedform of History, who holds a laurel-wreathedhuman skull and a book. Her whole bearing isregal in its dignity, though it lacks the intentalertness of America. Africa, in contrast to theserobed queens, is a sleeping woman of Nubian type,the upper part of her figure entirely nude&#160;; sherests her right arm upon the Sphinx, and behindher a shrouded figure seems to hint at her yetunknown future. It is so rarely that Mr. French Text Appearing After Image: ■1^ ALICE FREEMAN PALMER MEMORIAL BY DANIEL CHESTER FRENXII Datiiel Chester French Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: George Herbert Palmer was an American scholar and author. He was a graduate, and then professor at Harvard University. He is also known for his published works, like the translation of The Odyssey and others about education and ethics, such as The New Education and The Glory of the Imperfect.
context_section_description: He married his first wife, Ellen Margaret Wellman from Brookline, Massachusetts in 1871 and she died in 1879.
  On December 23, 1887, he married, as his second wife, Alice Freeman Palmer, who was the president of Wellesley College. They had a "marriage of comradeship". They both pursued their individual careers, and George contributed efforts to managing the household, particularly when she was at the University of Chicago during her post there as dean of women. He had a home in Boxford, Massachusetts for summer and other vacation trips. Palmer had three sabbaticals, during which they lived in their favorite cities and traveled through the countryside on bicycles. During his third sabbatical, in December 1902, the Palmers were in Paris and Alice required surgery. She died of an abdominal condition now treatable with antibiotics. After her death, he wrote The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer (1908).
  He died on May 7, 1933 at 91 years of age and his ashes were buried with his wife's at the Houghton Chapel of Wellesley College.
caption: Daniel Chester French, Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial, Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College
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