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...Boston for well-preserved cultural atmosphere. Shivering in a New Hampshire April, he talked to tough farmers and foresters about the Government's work in timber salvage, learned that New England produces less than a fourth as much high-grade timber as it could and should. In Concord, N. H., he watched the State Legislature in session ("the people themselves seemed to have come to Concord, and they looked poor as the land from which many of them came...
Hsien Hsiang Ku, of Hongkong, China, S.B. Purdue '40; Donald W. Loiselle, of Concord, N. H., S.B.U. of N. H. '40; Taylor Lyman, of Mt. Vernon, S. Dak., A.B. Stanford '40; Edward J. McBride, S.M. '39, of Chester, Pa.; Henry F. Maling Jr., S.M. '40; of Arlington; Stanley J. Markowski, of Thompsonville, Conn., S.B. Conn., '40; Richard H. Meese, of Santa Rosa, Calif., S.B. Washington...
Since then he has been living as near the Yard as possible, in an apartment overlooking Concord Avenue and just across the Common from Hollis Hall, which he used to make the headquarters for his group of admiring students...
...that Emerson could look at the world around him--a world of grasping New England commercialism, and of corrupt barons of industry--and smile quietly, bless it, and retire to his home in the village of Concord. His faith was a pure, white flame, and then and ever since it has had a great appeal to youth. But today, in this world of "Grapes of Wrath," Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Finland, its light is nearly winking out. What is there left...
Thenceforth there is an almost burlesque aptness in the fact of his phenomenal success with soap. Admiring Emerson, he was inspired on a pilgrimage to Concord to write his highly profitable Little Journeys (one part fact, three parts fancy). Biblical inspiration coined such popular aphorisms as "Blessed is the man who does not bellyache." Emulating William Morris' idealistic experiment in fine books and hand craftsmanship, Hubbard founded the Roycroft Shops. His brand of Guild Socialism consisted of turning out rococo limp-leather-bound reprints selling from $2 to $250 ("not how cheap, but how good"), together with his glorified...