Word: waldo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WALDO W. WILLARD...
...Bangor on Monday evening. Among other things, he drew a diagram, on which he represented himself as on the top of a high mountain, exceeding in knowledge everybody else in the world. He placed Harvard graduates in the bottom layer, bunco steerers next above them, and then Ralph Waldo Emerson...
JESSE C. DANN,Captain Yale Nine,WALDO W. WILLARD,Captain Harvard Nine,ADRIAN A. LARKIN,Captain Princeton Nine...
Into this circle of pessimists was born Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man gifted with a large cheerful nature, ready to face the great questions of the day, but never made despondent by them. Although he was not contented with the age he lived in, he firmly believed that it was better than all that had preceded it. As for the future, his firm faith was that it would be better than the present. Utterances of Carlyle, George Eliot, and many other writers show with what delight his pure hopeful philosophy was welcomed by the intellectual world. He had many traits...
Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. The Optimism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mr. William Franklin Dana. Sever...