Word: emersonian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teaching. The old-line Trinitarians, feeling that they must train young men in the true faith, broke away from the College proper to form the Andover Seminary. With the old Puritan discipline gone, religious teaching in the College completely changed its form. The Unitarian faith, strongly tied up with Emersonian Transcendentalism, was easily shunted off into the Department of Philosophy...
...make himself well-balanced, he who must determine his set of values, he who must become interested in studying, making friends, and joining activities. The idea of maladjustment can easily be distorted through overemphasis by doctors and deans, and despite their worries America is against losing its tradition of Emersonian self-reliance. It is absurd to think that the University should be morally responsible for the fate of every Freshman, for to nurse one thousand mothers' sons can be no official...
Bred in an atmosphere of tolerance and infused with the Emersonian doctrine of self-reliance, the student in Cambridge tends to build about himself a crustaccous shell, when it comes to participating in group agitation. Yet in a college where each member, student and faculty alike, is left free to pursue his given task and no official thought is paid to caste, creed, color, or previous condition of servitude, the average Harvard man finds it hard to see just what he can really agitate about. Student publications, for instance are not victimized by political censorship, such as "The Daily Texan...
...first is merely an outcropping of the Emersonian doctrine of transcendentalism, which produces an indifference to all things material. This characteristic seems to have a marked effect on others, either very pleasant or distinctly irritating...
...Edward Channing, professor emeritus of history at Harvard, son of two Emersonian Transcendentalists, Poet William Ellery Channing and Ellen K. Fuller. He had written so feverishly in order to accomplish what no man ever had done before: to complete a scholarly history of the U. S., a thoroughgoing picture of the lives and times of all North American colonists and U. S. citizens from Norsemen to Hoover. That this was no easy task he had set himself may be judged by the failure at it or despair of it entertained by his best predecessors and colleagues. Statesman George Bancroft...