Word: emerson
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Brown and Dr. P. A. Hutchinson have been appointed to take charge of the Philosophical Library in Emerson Hall. The library will be open every week-day from 1.30 to 4.45 o'clock, and members of the Philosophical Seminaries, having keys to the library, may use it any time from 9 to 5 o'clock. All students of philosophy taking the more advanced courses, will be welcome to use the library, but students in the elementary courses, Philosophy 1a and 1b, are expected to find in the Reading Room of Gore Hall the books needed for their work. Books...
Last night in the Living Room of the Union, Mr. Edwin Emerson, '91, the successful American war correspondent, who was the only person to interview General Stoesse during the siege of Port Arthur, described to an unusually large and interested audience the horrors and humors of the late Russo-Japanese...
Taking as his special title, "Running the Port Arthur Blockade" Mr. Emerson, with the help of excellent stereopticon views, told of his passage from Chee-foo to Port Arthur in a small, frail bark, of his reception by General Stoessel, of his expulsion from Port Arthur, and of his subsequent experiences on the Japanese side...
Owing to Viceroy Alexeof's decree that no foreign newspaper correspondents should be allowed within the city limits, Mr. Emerson, although obtaining numerous photographs of siege operations, was finally expelled from Port Arthur; and after some time on a Chinese junk, was eventually captured by the Japanese blockading fleet. It was from the Japanese ranks that he obtained his vivid photographs of the bloody assault on "203-Metre Hill." On his refusal, however, to disclose to General Nogi his knowledge of the Russian fortifications, the lecturer was imprisoned for some time at the Japanese naval base at Sasebo, where...
...Emerson is the author of a number of successful books, including a "History of the Nineteenth Century." His descriptive articles have appeared in French, German, English, Spanish and Italian papers, and in almost every newspaper of prominence in the United States. He has also lectured before a number of associations and colleges. The photographs in his collection number more than a thousand views, including many exceptional ones of bursting shells, sinking battleships, storming parties, and mines at the moment of explosion...