Word: emerson
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Divinity students met Ralph Waldo Emerson at the house of Professor Everett last week...
...Luther Dimmick Shepard, D. M. D., professor of operative dentistry; George H. Howison, lecturer on ethics in the Divinity School for the current academic year; Harry Blake Hodges, instructor in chemistry and German for the current academic year; William Cranston Lawton, A. B., Henry Gilman Nichols, A. B., Edward Emerson Phillips, A. B., as proctors...
...pleasing difference, that none of them is over a column and a half in length. When platitudes are the order of the day, those who write them most briefly deserve most credit and most thanks. In the Bowdoin Orient we find an essay of four columns in length on Emerson, which tells us nothing new, and suggests as little. We should have more patience with it, were it cut down, as it easily might be, to the length of the articles in the Syracusan...
Take care to choose a good pseudonyme. Emerson once won a Bowdoin prize, signing himself "A Son of New England"; but times have changed, and that would be thought shockingly provincial. Something which would hint in a noncommittal way of a gift to the College in future years would be effective. When you leave your manuscript at the secretary's office state distinctly that it is not an excuse from prayers; for several men have lost a prize through a misunderstanding on this point...
...Emerson, F. W. Olmsted...