Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosperous Louisville grain merchant who had emigrated from Prague in 1848, Louis Brandeis went to Harvard Law School in 1875, in time to hear, at the house of a professor, a paper on education, read in a quavering old man's voice, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. After his graduation, the firm he started with his Classmate Sam Warren prospered brilliantly. By the time he was married at 34 to Alice Goldmark, whose father, a political exile from Vienna, had emigrated in 1848, Louis Brandeis was both mature and financially secure enough to manifest the social consciousness that has since...
Headed by II. Van Buren Cleveland '38, a committee of undergraduates is sponsoring a Harvard "Congress" to be held at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday in Emerson...
...George Emerson Lowell scholarships, awarded on the basis of a competitive examination under the Department of Classics, were won by Robert J. Cumming '38, of Banger, Maine, and Walter W. Webster '39, of Worcester...
...seminar in an instructor's room, with smoking allowed, presents the student with a refreshing contrast to the run-of-the-mill sessions in Harvard, Emerson, or Sever, where he is often confronted with an uninspiring lecture and a bafflingly large reading list...
...benefits from studying American tradition are twofold: the student emerges well instructed in his own social and intellectual background; but more important still, he also learns the American tradition, which is to deny tradition. Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa Address may not be as well written as many of Carlyle's essays, but it is a direct challenge, an inspiration to every young man who reads it. So it is with Whitman, Poe, and Hawthorne, and a hundred other American authors. American history teaches the same lesson: we honor Sam Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln for the originality of their several...