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Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. The Optimism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mr. William Franklin Dana. Sever...
Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. The Optimism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mr. William Franklin Dana. Sever...
...being familiar with as the pretty folk lore of Hmoer or the coarse buffooneries of Aristophanes. Certain minds could better be introduced to these various literatures through translations, the use of which has been recommended both by precept and by example even by so great a thinker as Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson...
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...