Word: emerson
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Edward W. Emerson is giving a course of illustrated talks on Art Anatomy at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The course began on March 28, and there will be a lecture at 2.30 p. m. every Thursday for ten weeks. The fee for the course will be ten dollars, provided that ten or more men join. If a smaller number join, the fee will be raised to thirteen dollars...
...first century of Harvard's existence, the second from the beginning up to the present time. The latter list was approved by the committee and will be sent immediately to the architects. The names are: John Adams 1755, James Russell Lowell 1838, Louis Agassiz, h. 1848, Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, Joseph Warren 1759, Cotten Mather 1678, Joseph Story 1798, Benjamin Peirce 1829, Edward Everett 1811, Asa Gray h. 1844, Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard College; Charles Summer 1830. The committee was empowered to submit ten more names to be added to the above list. Professor Hollis stated that this...
...Caucasus," the third of a series of chapters on "Russia of Today," by Henry Norman, M. P., Harvard '81, January Scribner's: "The X-Rays in Medicine," by Francis H. Williams, M.D., '77, and "The Public Library in the United States," by Herbert Putnam '83, January International: "Some Emerson Memorials," by Edward Everett Hale '39, Outlook of Dec. 29: "The Study of Mammalian Embryology" by Professor C. S. Minot, December American Naturalist: "On the Variation of the Statoblasts of Pectinatella Magniflea from Lake Michigan, at Chicago," by Professor C. B. Davenport. "Studies on the Cause of the Accelerating Effect...
Professor Emerson '71 has written for the magazine a sketch of the life and work of the late Charles Carroll Everett, Dean of the Divinity School. The paper tells much of Dr. Everett's work which is not generally known, and cannot but be most satisfactory to his many friends. The sketch is accompanied by an excellent picture of Dr. Everett...
...most striking parts of the book is the discussion of Calvinism and Unitarianism. The philosophy of these two movements, with their relations to history, and their literary results, have nowhere else been so carefully studied. On the other hand, Professor Wendell fails to understand Thoreau and Emerson. Grouping Thoreau with Alcott under the lesser men of Concord is clearly a lapse of judgment. The subject of transcendentalism is also handied in a somewhat superficial manner. The spirit of Emerson is also missed, perhaps because of over-emphasis on the "Yankee" element in Emerson. Mr. John J. Chapman...