Word: emerson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after the taverns, Daniel Webster came to Boston, and then the Liberator, the transcendentalists, and God. At the height of Boston's literary renaissance Walt Whitman came, and walked with Emerson, listening for two hours in 1860 to his talk. Of Emerson's involved arguments Whitman said, "While I can't answer them at all, I feel more settled than ever to adhere to my own theory, and exemplify...
...next famous grave, not far off, was that of Longfellow, where, we luckily remembered, the aged Emerson, a scant month before his own end, attended the burial on the arm of Charles Eliot Norton, also a future resident. From Indian Ridge, where Longfellow now slept as tranquilly as he did in his waking hours, we stumbled along Central Ave., to Cypress Ave., and then, trusting we were unobserved, skipped cross-country 'twixt stone and slab to the unforgettable Spruce...
...Emerson led the assault of Harvard students of a comtemplative bent, who came to Mount Auburn to lose themselves in the shady walks. James Russell Lowell used to wander through Mount Auburn's glades "in pursuit of poetic thoughts," according to one noted writer, who also noted that Franklin Pierce was lost in thought under a tree there when he was informed that he had been nominated to the Presidency. Of course, we too were lost in contemplation, but since no one rushed to inform us of any impending elections, or great poetical thoughts, we just thought of the mist...
...United States would presumably find a world government run by the Russians and Chinese as unacceptable as the latter would find one run by the major NATO powers, and the anti-colonialists would not be greatly attracted to a world government controlled by their former imperial overlords. Rupert Emerson...
...Rupert Emerson '22, Professor of Government, put forward his specific plan, but felt that "world government in any guise is good." Discussing the weakness of the United Nations, Emerson said that body, as it stands today, is is not enough to maintain world peace. Sohn pointed out that nations are now afraid to bring their problems...