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...born on the morning of the 25th day of November, 1859, in East Concord, N. H. In 1873 he was admitted to the Roxbury Latin School to pursue his studies preparatory to his admission to college, where, by his superb scholarship, his modest and considerate deportment, and his thorough goodness of heart, he won the esteem and affection of his teachers and fellow-students; his sharpest rivals, although at last outstripped by him, becoming his warmest friends...
CAMBRIDGE is no more than twelve miles from Concord, and yet there are students in Harvard College to whom New England thought is almost utterly foreign. The University is, of course, more or less cosmopolitan, and the Westerner tramples consecrated soil for perhaps a year and a half before he takes cognizance of the original thinkers whom it has nourished. I confess to a feeling of exasperation when one of these untutored minds propounds a view of life, or gives an estimate of character, without recognizing in any way the verdict of New England cultivation. Yet, although his lack...
...Harvard College is situated, - and Bangor. He one day asked our heroine if the Boston Poncas had not yet been removed to any reservation, and if Carl Schurz were not the governor of Massachusetts. He wanted to know if Roscoe Conkling had not been elected President, and if the Concord poet were not to be Secretary of State. Tommie did not laugh at these questions: she saw too deeply into the spiritualities of things. She felt that he was intense, and she rather liked him for it. To Lord London she was a riddle - a sphinx...
...called upon his lordship to retract the insult to that great novelist, saying that to slander his (F.'s) friend was to slander him (F.). The discussion was finally ended by the chairman's remarking that he wanted the money for building an L to the Concord school; and then he called upon the Sage of that place to explain the object of the present meeting. The Sage explained, and then was asked to explain his explanation...
...last meeting of the Philosophical Club, Messrs. Wheeler and Maude, both of '81, were elected members, and Mr. I. Panin, Vice-president. At the next meeting, Mr. Emery, of Concord, will address the Club on Hegel...