Word: waldo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Judge Abbott is one of the few men living who was fitted for college by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Judge Abbott entered Harvard at 14, and was graduated in the class...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson entered the freshman class, in his fourteenth year, in 1817. Dr. Kirkland was then president of the university and Edward Everett professor of Greek literature. Among the other professors were Edward Channing and Ticknor. Emerson was greatly influenced throughout his course by the inspiration which Ticknor brought to the university. Among Emerson's classmates, were Upham, author of the "History of Salem Witchcraft," and Josiah Quincy, afterwards mayor of Boston. During his first year in college, Emerson was the "president's freshman," doing his errands and making his announcements for him. He was at this time...
...school, among others Presidents Leverett, Langdon, Everett and Eliot, and Professor Josiah P. Cook. Other distinguished alumni were Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, while the present century has witnessed the graduation from the school of Charles Sumner, Robert C. Winthrop, Charles Francis Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson and hosts of others who have attained distinction, but whose names cannot be here given...
Professor Waldo, formerly of Harvard, has an article in the December number of the North American Review, on "Railroad and Public Time...
...bust of Ralph Waldo Emerson has been recently placed in Memorial. That of General Bartlett is being moved to the other side of the hall...