Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Emerson's writings have played no small part in forming the thought of this country during the last generation, at least, and his clear and elevated views have always appealed strongly to collegians and college-bred men. It is then of peculiar interest to college men to witness the controversy that it now going on about the criticism which has just been pronounced on Mr. Emerson by a man almost equally famous, Mr. Matthew Arnold. It would seem as if a great number of Emerson's countrymen were unaware of the esteem and appreciation in which they held him, until...
...Matthew Arnold will repeat his lecture on Emerson...
...among others Presidents Leverett, Langdon, Everett and Eliot, and Professor Josiah P. Cook. Other distinguished alumni were Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, while the present century has witnessed the graduation from the school of Charles Sumner, Robert C. Winthrop, Charles Francis Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson and hosts of others who have attained distinction, but whose names cannot be here given...
...years ago Emerson was chosen candidate by the students of Glasgow University for the Lord Rectorship. He was defeated by Disraeli, who obtained 700 votes to Emerson...
...Osgood and Co. sold every copy of their edition de luxe of the Carlyle-Emerson correspondence, edited by Prof. Norton, before the day of publication...