Word: emersonian
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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...
...Emersonian observation that scholars are too apt to bury themselves in their studies can hardly be applied with aptness to the students in theories of the present day. The appeal of the Concord sage has been heard and answered, at least by those professors of the University who make up the Harvard Committee on Economic Research...
...James Russell Lowell; it treats of Mr. Lowell's London life and will be of interest to all Harvard men. There is an odd bit entitled "Boston" by Emerson. It contains a most interesting characterization of the traits of the town and its inhabitants, and is full of Emersonian phrases. Miss Calls article on "The Greatest Need of College Girls" is interesting and is refreshing from the very nature of the subject. There are a couple of clever pieces of fiction, a review of the political situation and a lot of letters of John Stuart Mill. These latter give...