Word: emerson
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Prescott, jr., and R. L. Emerson, were guests of the editors of the Yale Record at the eighteenth annual dinner in New Haven Wednesday night. Prescott responded to the toast "Lampy on the dual league...
Last evening in Divinity chapel, a lecture on "Carlyle in Relation to Goethe" was delivered by Mr. Robert Niven, an English barrister, who has devoted much time to the study of Go the, Carlyle and Emerson. The speaker was introduced by Professor C. C. Everett of the Theological school. Mr. Niven said that there is nothing in the history of European literature more noteworthy than Carlyle's relation to Goethe. Carlyle was one of the first to recognize the great genius of Goethe and Goethe in return felt Carlyle to be a moral force...
Longfellow's Birthday.This (Thursday) evening at Union Hall, Cambridgeport, an illustrated lecture on "Eight American Authors-Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Bryant, Longfellow; a visit to their homes and haunts" will be given by J. White McCammon, a graduate of Harvard. Seventy views...
...leading article of the month is a scholarly account of the Trial, Opinions and Death of Giordano Bruno, by William R. Thayer. The story of "opinions" is particularly lucid and interesting. "Emerson would have been condemned by that Inquisition," says Mr. Thayer, "for two of his sentences." The Value of the Corner, by G. P. Lathrop, is one of those discussive essays upon nothing in particular and many things in general, such as Lamb delighted in. There is nothing else Lamb-like, however, in Mr. Lathrop's theory of the advantages for solitude of a corner. "A Forgotten Episode...
...Roosevelt of the Civil Service commission contributes a paper on the "Merit System versus the Patronage System" in which he ably defends the spirit of civil service reform. "Emerson's Talks with a College Boy" is a collection of remarks made by the great essayist to Charles J. Woodbury, while the latter was a student at Williams. It is accompanied by an engraving from a full length portrait of Emerson painted about 1859. Charles de Kay has a well illustrated article on some of the newly discovered Greek terracottas. "A Corner of Old Paris." by Elizabeth Balch, is a charming...