Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ralph Waldo Emerson entered the freshman class, in his fourteenth year, in 1817. Dr. Kirkland was then president of the university and Edward Everett professor of Greek literature. Among the other professors were Edward Channing and Ticknor. Emerson was greatly influenced throughout his course by the inspiration which Ticknor brought to the university. Among Emerson's classmates, were Upham, author of the "History of Salem Witchcraft," and Josiah Quincy, afterwards mayor of Boston. During his first year in college, Emerson was the "president's freshman," doing his errands and making his announcements for him. He was at this time...
...death of Wendell Phillips, Harvard loses another of those great men of an older generation of graduates to which Emerson and Sumner belonged. Mr. Phillips' life was so much a part of the history of our people that any account of it would be superfluous. A member of the class of 1831, Mr. Phillips signalized the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation by his well known Phi Beta Kappa address, in which he charged upon the educated men of the country their disregard of questions of public good. This address which attracted so much adverse criticism has been considered by many...
...examination in English 5 will consist of a theme on Emerson, written in the examination room. This theme will count but little more than the regular ones, and will be numbered as one of them...
...Monday as the first of a series of talks on classical archaeology to be given this winter at Johns Hopkins University. Three lectures will be delivered there in February by Mr. J. T. Clarke, who has had charge of the work at Assos." In February and March, Dr. A. Emerson will deliver six lectures on Olympia.[Critic...
Oliver Wendell Holmes is preparing a life of Emerson for publication...