Word: walden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollow Cemetery. Here are buried Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Through the courtesy of Mrs. Sarah Ripley Ames the party will be shown through the Old Manse, a house not regularly open for visitors. At the beginning of the trip homeward there is an opportunity to see Lake Walden. The tickets for this excursion include transportation dinner and all admissions...
...others vague. Progressive schools in general turn out children who are keenly observant, able to amuse themselves, often undisciplined in manners, adept at using their hands, sometimes foggy as to specific facts. Nearly all Progressive schools are in cities. Four of the best-known ones are in New York: Walden, founded 19 years ago by Margaret Naumburg, has a set daily program but endeavors to make the children self-reliant (from babyhood through high school age), permits them to call their teachers by first name. Lincoln School, experimental offspring of Teachers College at Columbia University, has received nearly...
...next moment squelched by one of those inimitable gusts of Boston atmosphere. How anyone can really get spring fever in the cold clamminess of an April evening in (or near) Boston; how anyone can succumb to the charms of Boston maidens under the bare trees of Walden Pond is beyond our comprehension; how anyone can do anything with one of those Boston maidens even if he were to succumb is still more a matter for wonder...
...family fond; Babbitt, I., vs. Rousseau et al. You'll enjoy Les Confessions (the English editions are expurgated) along with an apple and a fire on a few could autumn evenings; and when spring rolls around there's La Neuvelle Heloise to be read aloud on the shores of Walden Pond. You'll learn all about conchiliomania (a disease) and how if you get it you're liable to become the father of modern specialization. You'll wish it were a half course; but if you throw together a good thesis and make out a fat bunch of reading cards...
...entrance of Mr. Hertz into the cab business was indirect, gradual. He began as a copyboy, became a sportswriter, then a manager of prizefighters, an automobile salesman, eventually an operator of private taxis for the Chicago Athletic Association. He started Walden W. Shaw Livery Co. (whited tires), later changed to Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co., founded the famed Hertz Drivurself Stations, Inc. When he started building cabs, he remembered having read that yellow possesses unusual visibility, stuck to that color. In 1925 he sold the manufacturing company to General Motors Corp., which changed the name to Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing...