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...suggest that Roosevelt--this great American, this historian and man of letters who took no course in either history or composition, was molded most during his College years away from College in the Maine woods. Certainly, to take another example, the biographer of Ralph Waldo Emerson admitted that the Concord sage underwent "no single definitive and manifest change" as an undergraduate. Charles Francis Adams once declared that for him "the college course, instead of being a time of preparation for the hard work of life, was a pleasant sort of vacation" and Henry Adams in his autobiography asserts that...
...Emersonian observation that scholars are too apt to bury themselves in their studies can hardly be applied with aptness to the students in theories of the present day. The appeal of the Concord sage has been heard and answered, at least by those professors of the University who make up the Harvard Committee on Economic Research...
...Observatory has two entrances, one on Concord Avenue opposite Buckingham Street and the other on Garden Street opposite Linnacan Street...
...Samuel S. Drury, D. D., '01, Head Master of St. Paul's School, Concord...
...party got off the Special, and the President and Mrs. Harding, with the Governors of Washington and Oregon, drove in an old Concord stage coach. Mrs. Harding, who could not see the crowd well enough, mounted to the driver's seat. In a j pine grove the party reviewed a pageant of Indians and pioneers - men with their trousers tucked in high boots, soldiers of half a century ago, representations of John Jacob Astor, General Fremont, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill and others. To add to the local color there were log cabins, specially built for the occasion...