Word: concords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 27, 1882 the bell on the Unitarian Church in Concord tolled seventy-nine strokes, for Raiph Waldo Emerson had died. Well might Concord and all New England mourn, for that death marked the high tide of New England's leadership in the world of belles lettres. Hamlin Garland has told of the change. But Emerson was the flesh and blood of America's first native literature, and as such he has become a myth, godly, mysterious, and sacred. Moderns do not read Emerson much, perhaps because they fear the myth, perhaps because they cannot understand his strength...
...celebrate the 157th anniversary of the Battle of Concord, Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts went to Schenectady, impersonated an embattled farmer, fired a "shot heard round the world." In a broadcasting studio radio technicians wielded powder horn, ramrod and wadding, loaded a Revolutionary Brown Bess flintlock. At 7:30 a. m., hour when the Concord skirmish began, Governor Ely nervously pulled the trigger. It clicked inef⅛fectively-an official fired a revolver. In ⅛ of a second the sound was flashed to Kootwijk, Holland, relayed to Bandung, Java, thence to Sydney, Australia and back to Schenectady...
Entrance to the Observatory will be on the Concord Avenue side opposite Buckingham Street. In addition to a short non-technical address on some new and interesting phase of astronomy, exhibits by students showing the work that the Observatory engages in may be seen. Since the lecture room and instruments are limited the group must be confined to a small number. Application for tickets which must be secured in advance may be made by addressing "Open Nights," Harvard Observatory, Cambridge. This opportunity is of especial value for Freshmen who intend to concentrate in Astronomy to become acquainted with the staff...
...Church of Boston into the grave, consoled on his death bed by Dr. Frothingham's assurance that "at least he had not outlived his teeth." Ralph and his four brothers did their poor mother's chores, pastured the cows on Boston Common. But it was during summer visits in Concord, at Step-Grandfather Ripley's manse, that New England Nature smiled on him. By the responsive leaping of his heart, he felt that his own human nature was designed for glorious affairs...
...calling, everything but his faith in himself and Nature's Neo-Platonic Over-Soul. To prove himself, to share his thought with others, he went to Europe, saw its civilized sights, met its civilizing men. Landor, Coleridge, Wordsworth and especially Carlyle delighted him. After a year he returned to Concord knowing what...