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...summer long," the first chapter proceeds, "Bronson Alcott paced through Concord's placid loveliness, being Bronson Alcott still, still ready to let flow the wondrous volume of his stored inanity on any victim. . . . Louisa May Alcott was famous. Her bones ached; her voice had become hoarse and coarse. . . . She must nurse her mother and pay Pa's debts. . . . Alcott went beaming and rosy in the very best broadcloth and linen to lecture on Duty, Idealism and Emerson. . . . Duty's child was hard at work, writing 'moral pap for the young' in her own phrase...
...been published a charming, witty and philosophical comedy of manners in the full regalia, atmosphere and personnel of Boston, 1850, and in the full flood of life anywhere, at any time? If so, let a specimen of the descriptive prose be here entered: "The March wind staggered about the Concord house, striking at doors, shaking shutters. By its sound you knew that it smelt of melting earth and sticky buds. Inside was a dingy, not unpleasant taint of coke burning in the Franklin grate, and a lingering fragrance of dinner . . . ticking clocks, the reptilian hiss of fire, and without...
...inevitability of war, the efficacy of preparedness, and the dangers of imperialism are a few of the questions which will be considered at the Concord Conference from June 19 to July 4. a Convocation of Youth for Training in Peace Leadership planned by a number of representative students from Harvard, Radcliffe. M.I.T., Wellesley, Boston University, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Simenons and Tufts...
Members of the University wishing to attend the Concord Conference may see the leader of the Harvard delegation, D. F. Foljambe '26 at 3 Mower Hall or telephone the Secretary of the Conference at Haymarket...
...spirit of concord did not yet brood undisturbed over the Assembly. There were still charges and counter-charges to be heard that had been made during the year between the two extreme wings, and most important of all there was the report of a commission of 15, appointed last year to "find peace...