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...class of 1952 has arrived in time to witness the second flowering of New England. Thoreau and Emerson never shone so brightly as Sain and Spahn. And Billy Southworth is undoubtedly the greatest New Englander since Calvin Coolidge...
...Thoreau Society of Concord, Mass. began a campaign for $30,000 to buy a house in which Authur Henry Thoreau wrote his journals and prepared his famed Walden-a work which expressed his contempt for costly, conventional houses...
...nudists, and somber lady reformers whose figures Henry James was later aspishly to describe as having "no more outline than a bundle of hay." But in the midst of all this intellectual mooning there was great and solid achievement; this was the New England of Emerson and Hawthorne, of Thoreau, Lowell and Longfellow-the golden age of American letters...
Harvard Club in Concord: Stephen P. Baldwin '43, 49 Thoreau Road, Concord...
...Heartily Detest. . . ." From the Russian pacifist Count Leo Tolstoy and the American hermit-naturalist Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi learned the doctrines of nonviolence and deliberate, organized disobedience to unjust power. He said it was better to be poor and secure with a home spinning wheel than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...