Word: thoreau
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Another article on the "Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence", ("Emerson in Europe,") by F. B. Sanborn, appears in this number, and is most interesting...
...Present Requirements for Admission to Harvard College." There is an excellent account of the evolution of our mode of conducting examinations together with a good discussion of the aim of the college in the matter of choice of subjects. The number contains also some correspondence of Emerson and Thoreau and several stories and poems...
...watching the red-breasted robin, he is thoroughly happy. The power of minute observation which is every-where displayed - be it in discussing "The Coming of the Birds," or "The Equinoctial on the Dunes, "The Couquest of Pegan Hill," or "Chocoroa" and its valleys, - reminds one of Thoreau, in its closeness and accurateness...
...superfluous to call the attention of Harvard men to what is by far the most interesting article in the New England Magazine for November, the account of "The Home and Haunts of Lowell" by Frank B. Sanborn. Mr. Sanborn was for many years an intimate friend of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Lowell, and he possesses a knowledge of the men which those who simply read their books can never attain. Although within the last two months a number of articles about Lowell have appeared, none of them went safely into an account of Lowell's student and home life...