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...Copeland talked last evening in Sever 11 on the town of Concord, before a large and interested audience...
...hundred and twenty years ago at this season of the year, said Mr. Copeland in beginning his lecture, General Gage, then in possession of Boston, thought it would be a good move to sieze the colonists' stores of arms and ammunition at Concord. In spite of all the general's attempts at secrecy his plan transpired, and on the night of the 18th of April, 1775, the country was quietly alarmed by Paul Revere and other persons, and the news went forth that a detachment of British regulars had left Boston for Concord. According to the received account, they...
...Copeland went rapidly on from this point to the time when Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and less well known members of the celebrated literary group, inhabited Concord and wrote their books there. Emerson was spoken of both as the Delphic man, through whom the gods spoke to men; as the unpractical person intensely interested in practical affairs, and delighting in "people who can do things," and as the good neighbor, caring for his friends and fellow citizens, and standing up - in the words of an old woman of the village - "just as if he thought other people were as good...
...Copeland's lecture to-night at 8 o'clock in Sever 11, will be on the town of Concord, - in its present aspect and in some of its literary and historical associations. The lecture is open to all members of the University...
Lecture. The Town of Concord, - in its present aspect, and in some of its literary and historical associations. Mr. Copeland. Sever...