Harvard, University: Emerson Hall and CentEnnial(1903) Josiah Royce to George B. Dorr (x) deportat GBD credit to Committee Cambridge October 23, 1898. VISITING Dear Dorr, Whenever you can find any time to look into our philosophy work, you are sure, so far as I am concerned, not only to be welcome, but to do good by your sugges- tions. I know nobody, other than yourself, whose sympathy and whose criticism I should equally value as I should yours. On the other hand, I know how busy you are, and what a call upon your time such work involves; and I do not wonder that you ask help. As to the "young graduates" of whom you speak, those who are at all seriously philosophical are in pro- fessional positions mostly elsewhere, as clergymen, or as teachers of philosophy. of accessible people who have not been tried in my time as visitors, I National think first of Dr. Richard C. Cabot, who is nearby, Green then of Edwin D. Mead of Boston, Rev. Francis Tiffany of Cambridge (not a very profound, but a practical sort of man, with an interest in philosophy), Frank Sanborn of Concord, -- all men who would be, at least, interested in the subject. I cannot answer for the way in which (October 23, 1898) 2. my colleagues would welcome any such visitors. Palmer, who has just been reappointed Chairman of the Division Royce jud of Philosophy (my term of four years having been served) 4year Chair of & always makes very light of any visitors, and rather drives them off. James does not care a copper. Munsterberg is his Palmar new to the business, and probably would care little. I myself should always feel in duty bound to explain my courses and methods so far as visitors might choose to want to know about them, and should both welcome visit- ation and value a report to the Overseers, it ever I Averseers came to learn what it was. Apart from a rather time- consuming study of our work, I suppose that a committee would never be able to say much about us. And so I can only suggest that you get in (to help out) some of the men mentioned, but, above all, that if you give me your own presence again for awhile this winter, I will try to give you material for a report. R. C. Cabot is taking some work as a graduate R.C.calet here; but is all the more able to act as examiner, since he now knows the ropes. He is a young man of mark, and of a very cool head, although perhaps a little too close to me, whom he kindly follows a good deal of late, to be as critical as he ought to be. (October 23, 1898) 3. It was a great pity to be unable to accept your kind wishes, and your Mother's, this summer, and come to see you. But duty demands me here, and even now I have no time to do more than breathe and work, and sleep between times. My warm love and greetings to your dear Mother. Yours very truly, Josish Royce. 13 147 1903 rentures and make singular art collections. By mar- The Unitarians and other liberals in religion, the Jews, ge he became connected with several of the older and other persons in the middle and western states are nilies of Boston, and in this quaint house were portraits arranging for local meetings in their regions; but how far descendants of the two Govs. Dudley, and old furniture this will extend is not yet decided. ich happily escaped the flames the other day. The mill and its wooded stream, the Artichoke, was not (338) Feb. 5, 1903. REVIVAL OF THE CONCORD ly a haunt of artists, as you said, but of poets and sages SCHOOL FOR THREE WEEKS TO HONOR EMERSON. ring the transcendentalist period, whither Emerson and rgaret Fuller, Whittier and Caroline Sturgis Ellery A committee has been formed to re-establish the Con- anning and his cousin and brother-in-law, Wentworth cord school of philosophy for three weeks in July and gginson, often resorted. In the miller's parlor, by a August, after the educational sessions are over, and this od fire, members of this group held their intimate committee is now mailing out a list of lectures, for the irees, and on the mill pond was always good boating for mornings at Concord and the evenings at Boston. The ets and lovers. One of these, in this dual capacity, thus committee are Edwin D. Mead, chairman, D. G. Haskins, scribed the moonlight landscape:-- secretary, J. C. Haynes, Moorfield Storey, G. W. Cooke, R. Thayer of Cambridge, and F. B. Sanborn; and the The stream is well alive; purpose of the school will be to do justice to Emerson's Another passive world you see, genius and character in 30 lectures by as many well-known Where downward grows the form/ of every tree: speakers. Who these will be is not yet made known. Like soft light clouds they thrive; Like them let us in our pure loves reflected be! (339) Feb. 26, 1903. THE EMERSON SOCIETY-- PICTURES OF EMERSON. We smoothly glide below The faintly glimmering worlds of light: The Emerson society of Boston, of which Mr. Malloy is Day has a charm, and this deceptive Night president, held its last winter meeting yesterday, and Brings a mysterious show; voted to join with the Free Religious association in keep- He shadows our dear Earth, --but his cool stars are ing the centenary of Emerson's birth, May 25th, in Boston. white Several of its members have been invited to give lectures in the proposed reopening of the Concord school of philosophy is a passage that can only be compared with Homer's next July, at Concord and Boston. A word should be said mous picture of night/ in the Grecian camp around Troy, about the shocking caricatures of Emerson in the Booklover's d Shakespeare's moonlight scene with Lorenzo and magazine for February; scarcely one of the portraits being ssica. And the comfort of it is that no fire can destroy well engraved. The sketch of the Emerson study by Miss e water and the woods, which make up the picture; while Roberts comes out better and the facsimilies of letters are e house on the knoll where the rivers meet, is to be re- well given and are interesting. The articles are of various lilt in spring, on the old lines, and beside the ancient degrees of merit, and not free from mistakes. Mr. Good- arden and orchard. The fire occurred at midday, and speed of Park street, who is just announcing the small edi- e more valuable belongings were saved and carried to a tion of a new book, "The Personality of Emerson," will rick house on the same estate, a little nearer the city; there give a good engraving of one of the best portraits. hile Miss Curzon and her niece are guests in a friend's He has also become the publisher of Ellery Channing's illa near by "Poems of Sixty-five Years," issued last summer by Bentley of Philadelphia, and has reduced the price of the (337) Jan. 29, 1903. PLANS FOR THE EMERSON CEN- beautiful volume to $2.50 Libraries which desire it 'ENARY. should buy at once, as only about 140 copies remain for sale. The plans for celebrating the Emerson centenary grad- ally take shape, and are nearly complete so far as Con- (340) Mar. 12, 1903. ACTIVITIES CONCERNING THE ord and the liberal religionists are concerned. The pastor EMERSON CENTENNIAL. f the old parish of Concord, Mr. Macdonald, will give an ddress, in the church of Emerson's ancestors, on Sunday, The proposed revival of the Concord school of philosophy, he 24th of May, and the Unitarian body on the same even- in 30 lectures, half given at Concord in the mornings of ng will gather a great audience in Symphony hall, Boston, July, and half at Boston in the evenings of the same days, 0 hear an address by President Eliot of Harvard. On Mon- has been positively assured by the acceptance of 20 lec- ay, the actual anniversary, there will be a series of meet- turers out of 30, and the subscription of a guarantee fund ngs in Concord, at which Senator Hoar, his classmate, of $1500. Among the lecturers will be Mrs. Howe (it is 'rof. Norton, and Col. Higginson will speak, and the hoped), Dr. Harris of Washington, Rev. S. A. Eliot, son :hildren of the town will take part. Boston will also have of President Eliot, Charles Malloy, F. B. Sanborn (on neetings that day (the 25th of May) and the Free Religious "Emerson and the Concord school of philosophy"), Rev. society, of which Emerson was a member, will hold a J. W. Chadwick, etc. The course will continue three weeks neeting either Monday or Tuesday. Subsequently, and and will take up almost every aspect of Emerson's compre- luring the educational sessions in Boston in July, some hensive character and versatile activity. John Albee is notice will be taken of the anniversary; and Miss Farmer, revising his little book, "A Remembrance of Emerson," it Greenacre, proposes an Emerson week in July or August. for publication before the school assembles, and Houghton Can built - april 2, 1903 Auxi gri Dosc 7 han wanted & referty to your toyful letter until 7 could bam from Program the details of fund meeting. The problect makes me my happy in and. we can handly now fail of laying the stom on Emergend birth day, / but I hope we shall also obtain item fall $ 2 50 050 originally In around Ins Kindell asked of the made has statement him now whether the might be defensed. V let her J did not suffich the money would be muched until next year. information FROM EDWARD E. HALE 39 HIGHLAND Sr. ROXSURY. MASS. April 8, 1903 near Mr. Dorr:- I had really meant to relieve you of the annoyance of writing. I have gone over two or three lists of the people who help the world forward, and I think it might be well to address the gentlemen and ladies who are included. Kidder who was one of the public spiri- ted people told me once that in England, a tenth part of the rich people subscribed their fair share to public enterprises; that a tenth part gave to them occasionally, and that eight-tenths of the rich people never did anything about the public service which they could help. I am still hoping that your grandfath- er's Log or Journal will turn up. Always yours, Elward E Rale 17 Luiney Sr. 10 May'o3 Dear Mr. Dor: I shall report to the Corporation tomorrow that the Emerson Hall subscription is sure to he completed and that it is for them To fix the site, essage the architech, and go ahead . Please tell me what you have in hand as evidence of that rsee York anonymous $ 10,000. I are glad the committee Hel Emerson and Harvard College. New York Times (1857-Current file); May 23, 1903; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 2002) pg. BR18 1903 Emerson and Harvard College. Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address on The American Scholar," delivered at Har- vard in 1837, gave such serious offense to the college that it was not until 186C that sentiment had changed sufficiently to allow his being given the degree of LL. D. To- day Harvard cannot do enough in honoring Emerson, The new building for the philo- sophical department, the cornerstone of which will be luid on May 25, the Emerson centenary, Is to be an imposing memorial to him. and will be called Emerson Hall. A series of memorial lectures is being given at the university as follows: .. Emerson us is Philosopher," by Prof. Hugo Münster- berg: Emerson as n Poet," by Prof. George Santayana; of Emerson as an Amer- lean." by D. S. Miller, and a reading from Emerson by Charles Copeland. Prof. Muns- terberg recently stated that the most ad- vunced philosophy to-day was entirely in accord :vith Emerson, and that Harvard should take pride In Inscribing his name over the doorway of her hall of philosophy Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. EMERSON HALL ASSURED. Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file); May 19, 1903; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 2001) pg. 1 EMERSON HALL ASSURED. Announcement Made at Cambridge That the Necessary $150,000 Has Been - Subscribed. Special to The New York Times. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 18.-Prof. Hugo Munstolburg of Harvard, in a lecture on "Emerson the Philosopher to-night, made the important announcement that the necessary $150,000 for the new Emerson Hall of Philosophy had this day been se- cured, and that the erection of the edifice, which depended upon the raising of that sum before Emerson's birthday, way now assured. Prof. Munstoiburg's lecture was the first of a series of Emersonian lectures and memorial services, which will continue at Harvard during the coming week. and was heard by an audience which picked the immense new lecture. room to the galleriés. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. EMERSON HALL ASSURED. Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file); May 19, 1903; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2001) pg. 1 EMERSON HALL ASSURED. Announcement Made at Cambridge That the Necessary $150,000 Has Been - Subscribed. Special to The New York Times. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 18.-Prof. Hugo Munstolburg of Harvard, in a lecture on "Emerson the Philosopher to-night, made the important . announcement that the necessary $150,000 for the new Emerson Hall of Philosophy had this day been se- cured, and that the erection of the edifice, which depended upon the raising of that sum before Emerson's birthday, was now assured. Prof. Munstolburg's lecture was the first of a series of Emersonian lectures and memorial services, which will continue at Harvard during the coming week. and was heard by an audience which picked the immense new lecture. room to the galleriés. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. THE EMERSON HALL FUND. Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file); May 22, 1903; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2001) pg.8 THE EMERSON HALL FUND. Specia: to The New York Times. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 21.-Formal announcement was made at Harvard to-day. that through a number of gifts, amounting in all to $5,000, Emerson Hall, the new Hall of Philosophy, is now assured. One thou- sand dollars of this amount was given by Miss Alice Longfellow, daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, and $500 by Mrs. Bayard Thayer, The total amount now subscribed is $150,205. and, Inasmuch as the condition that $150,000 should be ralsed before Emerson's birthday has now been removed, the building will be started soon. The site for the hall has been chosen just back of Sever Hall, facing Robinson Hall, the new architectural building. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. nether this work can In the mix-up but had mounted Daven- Excursions (1) variou saful conclusion by a port's wheel and finished the ruce. in and about Boston posed of Colombians visitors during this, 8 povided In the treaty LETTER ABOUT EMERSON HALL stay of the Association by our Congress, and geons of the United cation by the Colom- At 7.45 o'clock this mc It Is Being Sent Out by Those in Charge took forty of the memb M the Isthmus are few of Fund for Harvard's Proposed Memorial quarters at the Hote buildings that make Wharf, where the Building anuma and Colon, as department steamer. structures along the carried them down the } A general letter just sent out to persons of wood. Very few eral Adna R. Chaffee, believed to be Interested in the project of ve been built in the tour of Inspection, acco building a new hall of philosophy at Har- ₫ almost none In the which, with the latter, vard as a memorial to Ralph Waldo Emer- ney are largely in a ren and Foru Strong. A son reads as follows: idds very much to taken out beyond the B The visiting committee of the alumni in ion to be worked out to the city about noon. charge of raising funds for a memorial hall problem will have to to Emerson at Harvard University desire At twelve o'clock a point of vlow of the to lay that project before all who value had elected to visit Ply takes on the activity Emerson and all Harvard men, that all to the historic town b: may have an opportunity to manifest their fuction, with the vast were met by member: Interest by contributions, large or small. lon, largely of a class Guards and were escort As a memorial to Emerson, this building, know nor care any- devoted to philosophic and philanthropic none of the points of All in all the prob- teaching at the university where Emerson being missed in the pili Timself was successively student, lecturer :e Isthmus of Panama For those who had ex and overseer. and taught in by men like ormed men as greater Professors James, Royce, Palmer, Minster- visit old Boston a trip hen the French com- berg, Peabody and Santayana, seems singu- foot was taken this aft because of the fact larly fitting. The hall itself is greatly of about fifteen under th needed at the university. For the further f worl built there at tain Myles Standish, w) development of the rapidly growing philos- old, with the attend- ophic work, it 1s Indeed essential. The man of the local comi philosophical department has the greatest ments during the conve. rely possible by some number of graduate students of any depart- Burial Ground and Ch ment or the university. Its courses are yo at Major Black's re- seen, and then a car wa well appreciated by undergraduates that nature as to effectu- Charles River to Charles average student now takes an entire Panama Canal pro- year or philosophy during 1118 college course. er HIII Monument wa: hat that report may A building devoted to one department gives which no trip about Ro to that department dignity. unity and em- sum of money for the 1.9 complete. The aftern- phasis. Nearly $150,000 has now been sub- of the canal and the inspection of the Navy scribed for this hall, but more 19 needed to Colon, and there are give the memorial permanence and distinc- rally possessed peculiar sthmus well who de- tion and to make the hall sufficient for the ficers, especially to those university's needs. connected with the nav be surprised if the Contributions or pledges of subscription ctically to the effect may be sent to the treasurer of the com- litation will make the mittee, Richard H. Dana, or to any other DISORDERLY CHU mus very much bet- member of the committee for forwarding to him. Committee, George B. Dorr. chair- hen the French com- man, 18 Commonwealti avenue Boston; Business Suspended there. In that event Richard H. Dana, treasurer, 905 Exchange Episcopaliunm Pray about the prosecution Building, Boeton; Richard C. Cabot, 190 ing y If the reports that Marlboro street, Boston: Joseph Lee. 103 to the effect that the Mt. Vernon street, Boston; Reginald C. Chicago, May 20-Deb Robbins, 44 Commonwealth avenue, Bos- and violent that busine will amend the treaty ton: Thomas W. Ward, 15 Wall street, New 1,000 Instead of $10,- while prayer was invoked York. 'olombia in the trans- of peace and good. will, I The contributions so far received by the the canal from the terday's session of the committee may be listed as follows: Council of the Reformed United States Gov- Previously acknowledged $147,260.00 further advices to be Goorge A. Gordon 50.00 of America. Though to Elizabeth C. Jenkins 5.00 delegates prayed earnest Miss Petersham 15.00 lea that has prevailed Grace G. Cowing 10.00 ance, they renewed their n the effect that the Annie L. Sears 25.00 as "Amen" had been h S indifferent to the Mary P. Sears 23.00 the wishes of Bishop S Anna S. Tapley 50.00 immus while there is Charlotte A. Heige 25.00 two points. Both Bish F. HX, Hedge $1,00 confidence is ex- Bishop ('heney begged t) Mr. and Mrs. A. 8. Hill 100.00 hibit more decorum and. ernment could doubt- Milton Reed 25.00) S done by the French Charles W. Stone 21)(N) peal by the former. sor Frederick F 100.00 mas T : was di 661134 were (110 5170 was memorial permanence and tion and to make the hall sufficient for the ficers, especially in the isthmus well who de- university's needs. connected with the n be surprised If the Contributions or pledges of subscription actically to the effect may be sent to the treasurer of the com- mittee, Richard H. Dana, or to any other DISORDERLY CH initation will make the hmus very much bet- member of the committee for forwarding to him. Committee, George B. Dorr, chair- when the French com- man. 18 Common Wealth avenue, Boaton: Business Suspende there. In that event Richard H. Dana, treasurer, 905 Exchange Episcopalians Pra about the prosecution Building, Boston; Richard C. Cabot, 100 ing If the reports that Marlboro street, Boston: Joseph Lee, 196 Mt. Vernon street, Boston; Reginald C. Chicago, May 2211 to the effect that the Robbins, 44 Commonwealth avenue, Bos- and violent that busi will amend the treaty ton; Thomas W. Ward, 15 Wall street, New while prayer was invok 0.000 instead of $10,- York. of peace and good will Colombia in the trans- The contributions so far received by the terday's session of th the canal from the committee may be listed as follows: Council of the Reform he United States Gov- Previously acknowledged $147,200.00 50.00 of America. Though further advices to be George A. Gordon Elizabeth C. Jenkins 5.00 delegates prayed earne Miss Petersham 15.00 ance, they renewed the! dea that has prevailed Grace G. Cowing 10.00 in the effect that the Annie I. Sears 25.00 as "Amen" had been Mary P. Sears 23.00 the wishes of Bishop IS indifferent to the Anna S. Tapley 50.00 hmus while there is 25.00 two points. Both B1 Charlotte A. Hedge F. H. Hedge 25.00 Bishop Cheney begged confidence is ex- Mr. and Mrs. A. S. HIIII 100.00 hibit more decorum and ernment could doubt- Milton Reed 25.00 done by the French Charles W. Stone 21) 00 peal by the former, S Frederick F. Ayer 100.00 was restored. It was tion. vet it is pointed John P. Lyons 5 00 of money was spent Emersonians of Englewood. N. J. element 100 by the you (through Mrs. S. A. Duncan) 10 00 termined 10 prevail in tr. by that company to Middletown. Conn 10.00 tion of a missionary b1 itions. Their hospital Charles F. Hinckle 10.0 A. A. Vaughan 15.00 ruled the council, igno ced by everyone who 3 as beyond criticism. S. W. Podman 20.00 Bishops Fallows and Ct actically without limit Thomas Dawes 20.00 eran members. The e William Ladd Ropes 50) satisfactory buildings Thomas W. Higginson 5.00 postponed until after a Frederic Palmer 5.00 its the best treatment H. S. Hoffman of Phila This treatment was McDonald McFayden 5.00 25.00 missionary bishop of th Elizabeth R. Simmons borer from the West Mrs. George S. Hale 13.00 1ca. nbians without stint. Edward B. Lane 50) of workmen the doc- Joseph Howland Hunt 25.00 Bishop-elect Hoffman W..." Brookline 5.00 Rt. Rev. William Lawrence 25.00 N. C., sixty-one years utar of men. and next George Putnam I(M).IM in the ministry since 1) two or three years of C. E. Guild, Jr 15.00 came a member of the of money, the laborer John H. Rhoades 10.00 me spent in the com- George Walton Green 10.00 Church. He built the e most pleasant pros- Mrs. G. S. Curtis 15.00 Philadelphia and in re Alice M. Longfellow 1,000.00 voted all his time to hon 3176. Bayard Thayer 500.00 lendid hospital service 200.00 The council pledged $300 John J Chapman Mrs. G. H. Sha 250.00 often criticised as too 23.00 npany undertook and Mary H. Lyons Frances R. Morse 23.00 town in a swamp Mrs. Glendower Evans 23.01 CHURCH FUNDS AT headquarters for its Josephine Lazarus 25.(H) In memoriam 25.00 Raptists at Buffalo n was a short distance Dr. and Mrs. H. I. Chase 5.04 Rate on to known as Cristobal 5.00 L. Sprague ng avenues of gravel Mrs. James T. Fields 23.00 Buffato, N. Y., May gutters of artificiti $150,203.00 Baptist Mission Society th alm trees set out the report of the come houses were of the An Old River Boatman rate of interest on ine ( found in any suburban Captain Lester L. Luey, died at Greenfield five per cent. Among in which the well-to- Wednesday afternoon at the age of 81. He Rev. A. C. Dixon of Bo: This city, reclaimed was one of the few connecting links between Evangellsm." He said the result or an effort the past and the present of the town; be- day was that pastoral any to provide for its tween the methods of transportation and evangelism and profe: healthful conditions business that obtained years ago and to- should work together. L day. His title of captain came from his out into the open air dur service as commander of the boats running said. and into the secu RD CO., Auctioneers on the Connection River in the day$ of Aurinir the winter A field Street Emerson and Harvard College. New York Times (1857-Current file); May 23, 1903; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 2001) pg. BR18 Emerson and Harvard College. Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address on " The American Scholar," delivered at Har- vard in 1837, gave such serious offense to the college that it was not until 186C that sentiment had changed sufficiently to allow his being given the degree of LL. D. To- day Harvard cannot do enough in honoring Emerson. The new building for the philo- sophical department, the cornerstone of which will be laid on May 25, the Emerson certenary, is to be an imposing memorial to him, and will be called Emerson Hall. A series of memorial lectures is being given at the university as follows: .. Emerson us is Philosopher," by Prof. Hugo Münster- berg: .. Emerson as a Poet," by Prof. George Santayana; .. Emerson as an Amer- lean." by D. S. Miller, and a reading from Emerson by Charles Copeland. Prof. Muns- terberg recently stated that the most ud- vanced philosophy 10-day was entirely in accord with Emerson, and that Harvard should take pride In Inscribing his name over the doorway of her hall of philosophy. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. PRESIDENT ELIOT'S ESTIMATE OF EMERSON New York Times (1857-Current file); May 25, 1903; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. PRESIDENT ELIOT'S of When come to his interpretation of ESTIMATE OF EMERSON historical Christianity we find that In his view the life and works of Jesus fell en- tirely within the Hold of human experience He sees in the delfication of Jesus an evi- dence of lack of faith in the infinitude of the individual human soul. He sees in Says His Thought Outran His every gleam of human virtue not only the presence of God, but some atom of his nat- Times by Generation or Two. ure. Religious truth, like all other truth, was to his thought an unrolling picture. not a deposit made once for all in some Emerson's Prophetic Teaching with Re- sacred vessel. When people whip were sure they had drained that vessel )and as- gard to Education, Social Condi- similated its contents attacked him, he was irresponsive or impassive, and yielded tions, and Religion. to them no juicy thought: so they pro- nounced him dry or empty, Yelt all of Emerson's religious teaching led straight to God-no to a withdrawn creator or an- BOSTON, May 24.-An address by Presi- thropomorphic Judge or King, but to the dent Charles W. Ellot of Harvard was a all-informing all-austaining soul of the feature of the Ralph W. Emerson birthday universe, The present generation of schplars and centennial exercises of the American Uni- ministers has been passing through an im- tarian Association, held to-day in Sym- portant crisis in regard to the sacred books phony Hall. President Eliot, in the course of Judaism and Christianity All the feat- ures of the contest over the higher criti- of his remarks, said: cism are foretold by Emerson in The Emerson has been dead twenty-one American Scholar. The poet chanting years, and it is thirty since he wrote any- was felt to be & divine man; henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a thing new, but his whole philosophy of life just and wise spirit: henceforward it is was developed by the time he was forty settled the book is perfect. Colleges. are years old, and it may be doubted if he built on it; books are written on Instantly the book becomes noprious; the wrote anything after 1848 the germinal ex- guide is a tyrant. This is exactly what pression of which may not be found in his has happened to Protestantism, which sub- journals, sermons, or lectures written be- stituted for infallible Pope and Church an infallible book; and this is precisely the fore that date. If, therefore, we find in evil from which modern scholanship is de- the accepted thought or established insti- livering the world." tutions of to-day recent developments of Emerson Commemoration Dinner. principles and maxims laid down by Emer- Among the exhibits at the Emerson loan son, we may fairly say that his thought outran his times certainly by one, and exhibition, to precede the Emerson dinner probably by two, generations of men. at the Waldori-Astoria to-night, are a take up now the prophetic teachings crayon portrait of Emerson drawn from life of Emerson with regard to education. In by Eastman Johnson, forwarded by Miss the first place, he saw with a clearness to Longfellow, daughter of Henry W. Long- which very few people have yet attained, fellow, and an oil portrait of Emerson the fundamental necessity of the school loaned by William C. Whitney. Altogether as the best civilizing agency after steady over 200 items appear in the catalogue of the exhibition. Israel Zangwill. Hall Caine, labor, and the only sure means of perma- and several Presidents of American univer- neat and progressive reform. sities have sent autograph estimates of "He taught that if we hope to reform Emerson's work. The speakers to-night will be Col. Henry Watterson, President mankind we must begin not with adults Schurman of Cornell. William T. Harris. but with children; we must begin at school. United States Commissioner of Education; There are some signs that this doctrine has Samuel J. Barrows, and Chancellor Mac- Cracken of New York University. Edwin now at last entered the minds of the so- Markham will read a poem. Tickets for called practical men. The Cubana are to the commemoration can be obtained until be raised in the scale of civilization and noon from G. G. Dawe, 128 Broadway; tele- phone, 970 Eighteenth Street. public happiness; so both they and we think they must have more and better IN THE SHOPS. schools. The Filipinos, too, are to be de- veloped after the American fashion; so we Those nice little West Indian water cool- send them 1,000 teachers of English. The Southern States are to be rescued from the ers-and the biggest are not very little persistent poison of slavery, and, after in which people have been so much inter- forty years of failure with political .neth- ested, come in varying sizes and cost ac- ods, we at last accept Emerson's doctrine cording to size from small ones at 25 cents, and say: We must begin earlier-at school. The city slums are to be re- up to 40, 50 and 65 cents. deemed. and the scientific charity workers find the best way is to \get the children There are big wine bottles which are into kindergartens and manual training schools, prettier though they have not the useful Since the civil war a whole generation qualities of the coolers. They can be used of educational administrators has been in any way in which a carate is used. They steadlly at work developing what is called the elective system in the institutions of are large and round at the bottom, taper education which deal with the ages above in quickly to a small neck which rises high twelve. Now. Emerson laid down in plain above the bottle and on one side is a terms the fundamental doctrines on which peculiar nose, large where it joins the bot- this elective system rests. He thought that the one prudence in life is concentration; tle and small at the spout. The working- man takes his wine from these bottles and the one evil dissipation. He said: You he uses them cleverly holding them high must elect your work: you shall take what above his head and pouring the liquid your brain can. and drop all the rest. down his throat without touching his Education used to be given almost ex- mouth to the bottle or bringing it near his clusively through books. In recent years lips. The glass is of a light blue and the there has come in another sort of education bottles cost 75 cents each. through tools, machines, gardens. draw- ings, casts, and pictures. Manual training, shopwork. sloyd and gardening have come Saffron is a cooking ingrediant that the into use for the school ages; the teaching average cook knows little about It is of trades has been admitted to some public Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. school systems; and, in general, the use of used chiefly in this country for coloring the hands and eyes in productive labor has been recognized as having good educational confectionery, with the exception of Span- effects. The education of men by manual ish restaurants where nearly every dish labor was a favorite doctrine with Emerson. is tinged with saffron and flavored with He saw clearly that manual labor might be it It is to he found at the shops where made to develop not only good mental quali- different imported delicaoles are to be had ties, but good moral qualities. and costs what seems a fabulous amount, SOCIAL CONDITIONS. 75 cents an ounce. It is light, feathery stuff and looks like a delicate of a turn next to some examples of Emer- dark red or burnt orange color. It is made son's anticipation of social conditions, visi- of the stigmas of the flowers of the saffron plant. It takes 4,000 blossoms to make ble to him as seer in his own day, and since an ounce and there is reason for its being become plain to the sight of the ordinary expensive. It requires but a very small millions. When he accumulated in his jour- pinch to season a dish. The Spanish use It with rice. nals the original materials of his essay (?) on Worship there were no large cities They offer a special kind of rice at the in the United States in the present sense shop where the saffron. is gold. There/are of that term. The great experiment of other kinds, but the best, they say, is from democracy was not far advanced, and had India. It is in long grains and does not not developed many of its sins and dangers; break in cooking. It costs 8 cents a pound. yet how justly he presented them in the following description: In our large cities the population is godless, materialized-no Spanish peppers, pimentos-which are bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. used not only in Spanish cooking,/br are These are not men. but hungers. thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it so delicious with mushrooms and in many people manage to live on. BO aimless as other diahes-can be bought by the can; they are? There is faith in chem- pimentos marrons, 10 gents for a half istry, in meat and wine, in wealth, in ma- pound and 15 cents for a full pound. chinery, in the steam engine, galvanic bat- tery, turbine wheels, sewing machines, and in public opinion. but not in divine causes. There is a queer kind of Spanish bean. 'In Emerson's day luxury in the present habas, which is said to be very good. It sense had hardly been developed In our costs only 5 cents a pound and is worth an country; but he foresaw its coming, and its experiment. The beans are dried and must insidious destructiveness. We spend our be soaked. incomes for paint and paper, for a hundred trifles, I know not what, and not for the things of a man. Our expense is almost all Bo must the Spanish dried peas, which for conformity. It is for cake that we run cost 6 cents a pound for the small and 16 in debt; it is not the intellect, not the heart; cents for the large sizes. not beauty, not worship, that costs us BO much. Why needs any man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, hand- Sugared almonds, prepared in Spain, al- some apartments, access to public houses mandras Garrapinadas, cost 55 cents a and places of amusement? Only for want loose pound. of thought. We are first thought- less, and then find that we are moneyless, We are first sensual and then must be rich. Turron alcanta is a Spanish nugat put He foresaw the young man's state of mind up in pound packages. to-day about marriage-Imust have money before I can marry; and deals with It thus: Give us wealth and the home shall exist. Gragea is a fine little confection, tiny, But that is a very imperfect and inglorious round things in colors, which are sup- solution of the problem, and therefore no solution. Give us wealth! You ask too posed to be used for ornamenting cakes. much. Few have wealth: but all must have It costs 50 cents a pound, but a pound a home. Men are not born rich; in getting would be enough to dress cakes for an wealth the man is generally sacrificed, and asylum full of children. often is sacrificed without acquiring wealth at last.' It is interesting, at the stage of indus- Spanish oil, a strong, pure olive oil, trial warefare which the world has now comes in small, square gallon cans and reached, to observe how Emerson; sixty costs $1.30. years ago, discerned clearly the absurdity of paying all sorts of service at one rate, Some of the Spanish preserves are de- now a favorite notion with some labor unions. He points out that even when all licious, and nothing could be more at- !abor is temporarily paid at one rate, dif- tractive to look at For instance, preserved ferences in possessions will instantly arise: pineapple means that very small whole In one hand the dime became an eagle pineapples are put up in a rich, clear juice. as it fell, and in another hand a copper cent. For the whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.' Emerson There are other preserves which are also was never deceived by a. specious philan- good and look nearly, if not quite, as appe- thropy or by claims of equality which find tizing. There are preserved oranges and no support in the nature of things. He was a true democrat, but still could say: lemons, mangoes, guayaba, the fruit of think I see place and duties for a noble- the guava tree, which looks like pre- man in every society, but it is not to drink served peaches and has a flavor entirely wine and ride in a fine coach, but to guide its own. All are put up in glass jars, and and adorn life for the multitude by fore- sell, respectively, for 75 cents and $1.10 for thought, by elegant studies, by persever- two and three pound jars. ance, self-devotion, and the remembrance of the humble old friend-by making his life secretly beautiful." How fine a picture Spanish figs in juice, put up in tin cans, of the democratic nobility is that! cost 85 cents. In his lecture on Man the Reformer," which was read before the Mechanics Ap- prentices' Association in Boston in Janu- A canned Spanish fish, which resembles ary, 1841, Emerson described in the clearest salmon and is treated in the same way. is manner the approaching strife between 85 cents a can. laborers and employers, between poor and rich, and pointed out the cause of this strife in the selfishness, unkindness, and mutual Fruits to be cooked are the plantain, distrust which ran through the community. green or ripe, to be fried, boiled, and served He also described with perfect precision the whole or mashed, and are 50 cents a doren. ultimate remedy, namely, the sentiment of love. Love would put a new face on this There are yams, green or ripe, and ma- weary old world in which we dwell as langa, a farinacious root which is much pagans and enemies too long. The used in Cuba. virtue of this principle in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten. But one day all men will be lovers, and every calamity will be dis- solved in the universal sunshine." It is more than aixty years since those words were uttered; and in those years so- ciety has had large experience of Industrial and social strife, of its causes and conse- quences, and of many attempts to remedy or soften it; but all this experience only Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. goes to show that there is but one remedy for these ills. It is to be found in kind- ness, good-fellowship, and the affections. In Emerson's words: . We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possi- ble.' The world will wait long for this remedy, but there is no other. EMERSON'S RELIGION. "I pass now to the last of the three topics which time permits me to discuss- Emerson's religion. In no field of thought was Emerson more prophetic, more truly a prophet of coming states of human opinion, than in religion. In the first place, he taught that religion is absolutely natural- not supernatural, but natural. He believed that révelation is natural and continuous. and that in all ages proph- ets, are born. Those souls 'out of time pro- claim truth, which may be momentarily re- celved with reverence, but is nevertheless quickly dragged down into some savage in- terpretation which by and by a new proph- et will purge away. He believed that man is guided by the same power that guides beast and flower. - The selfsame power that brought me here brought you.' he says to beautiful Rhodora. For him worship is the attitude of those . who see that:against Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Page 1 of 2 X Emerson Centenary MEMORIAL EXERCISES IN THE MEETING HOUSE OF THE FIRST PARISH IN CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS ON MONDAY AFTERNOON MAY THE TWENTY-FIFTH NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THREE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE BIRTH OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON ARRANGED BY THE SOCIAL CIRCLE A SOCIETY OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER FOR FORTY.TWO YEARS http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/emerson/images/Centenary1b.jpg 11/17/2003 Ticket for Afternoon Exercises Emerson Crutrutial U" his ticket will admit the bearer to the MEETING HOUSE OF THE FIRST PARISH in Concord, on Monday, May twenty-fifth, 1903, between two and three a' 'clock in the afternoon At three o2 clock the doors will be opened to all comers http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/emerson/images/Centenary3.jpg 11/17/2003 COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS CHARLES FRANCE ADAMS SOLOMON LINCOLN TROMAS HAILEY ALDRICH Join D. Love JOHN L. HATES WILLIAM C. LORING RICHARD C. CARTE FRANCE C. LOWELL RICHARD H. DANA Enwin D. MEAT SAMUEL A. ELIOT GEORGE H. MIFFLIN WILLIAM ESTICITY GEORGE R. 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Copyright © 2003, the University of South Carolina URL: http://www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/emerson/ http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/emerson/ephemera/emersonharvard.html 11/17/2003 Page 1 of 1 Dinner (By the risite bridge that the flood, at the Centenary of Their flag to April's breeze unforted, Here once the embanded farmers stood, 1Ralph Waldo Emerson And fired the dior heard round the world. 36y the Social Circle in Concord The for long done in silence slept : Allke the conquerer silent sleeps $ And Time the rideed bridge has ascept Down the dark irream which seasand creeps On this green lank, he this soft stream, We set today a enrive stone : That menory may their deal release, When, like our lires, series are gonc. espirit, that made those little dare IT To die, and leave their children free, Bill Fine and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and there? if the suggest white This children is wishind duty this earth and sky The to sing for discuss present * the base is 10M Hundred, Tell them. delive that it eyes were made for This Beauty is its for being." may Rineteen humbred and three http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/emerson/images/Centenary4a.jpg 11/17/2003 Page 1 of 1 Life Nicks Radishes Olives Much the best society I have Cream of Lettech EVER known is a eleb in Cancord called the Social Circle, consisting Turbania of Halflint Lobilier Sauce always of twenty-fixe of our citizens: Sliced Cultumbers doctor, lawyer, farmer, under, miller, Fillet of Boat mechanic, etc., sulidist of men, who Potito Computies Green Pes: yield the sulidest of gossip. Hara Alparagia, Hellandalsa vard University is a wafer compared to the solid land which my friends Lettoch and Tomato Salad Mayornia represent. www. Emerson la is friend in Fratton Publing Strawberries 1846 Dec. 12. les Clear and Water loes Asserted Cakh Toasted Crackers Requefert Cheese Cream Cheese Coffee http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/emerson/images/Centenary4b.jpg 11/17/2003 Page 1 of 2 was RWS Smeason AR25 - - EMERSON CENTENARY SERVICES SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON MAY 24, 1993 http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/emerson/images/Centenary2a.jpg 11/17/2003 - RALPH WALDO EMERS 1803-1903 THE HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY will first sing the "Blessed are the men who fear Him ; they ever walk in the ways of peace. T light to the upright. He is gracious, compassionate, righteous." MR. EMIL MOLLENHAUER will conduct the choru MR. H. G. TUCKER will play upon the organ. The REVEREND EDWARD EVERETT HALE will lead the PE and then, all standing, there will be read alternately the follou Let us now praise famous men and our fathers Many shall commend hi http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/emerson/images/Centenary2b.jpg 11/17/2003 Minuteman Library Network /Concord Page 1 of 1 m nuteman Concord Free Public Library LIBRARY NETWOR K Top Requests List Community Info Databases Kids Catalog Virtual Catalog My Account Help Q not DOOT 0007 New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Modify Search Another Search (Search History) KEYWORD emerson centennial Concord Search 29 results found. sorted by date. Record: Prev Next * Title The Emerson centennial, May 25, 1903 : extracts from a few of the many tributes to Emerson called forth by the centennial observances from some of the leading scholars of to-day. Publication info. [S.I. : s.n., 1903] Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL C.PAM.2 Item 103 CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Description 28 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 20 cm. Note Cover title. Includes selections from George Willis Cooke, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, George A. Gordon, George F. Hoar, Hugo Münsterberg, Hamilton W. Mabie, and Charles W. Eliot. Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Anniversaries, etc. Record: Prev Next OK pain DOST New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Modify Search Another Search EMERSON DAY IN CONCORD New York Times (1857-Current file); May 26, 1903; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2 pg. 5 EMERSON DAY IN CONCORD 100th Anniversary of the Philos- opher's Birth Celebrated. Senator Hoar Delivers an Address on His Contribution to Man's Knowl- edge of Spiritual Laws. CONCORD, Mass., May 25.-Concord to- day gave itself up to a general celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Seldom dict not of the year or of the generation only. but of the centuries. has the town stopped all business for a day When Dean Stanley was in this country out of respect for one man, but to-day he took special pains to inform himself of this was done, so that her people might be the history and present condition of our religious denominations. The result of unhindered in paying tribute to a distin- his observation was that _whatever might guished son. There were two parts to the be the sect or creed of the clergymen they day's programme. The forenoon exer- all preached Emerson. I: were a sorry story for humanity if cises were planned exclusively for the these eternal verities had been uttered by school children and were held in the Town but one voice. or had waited from the be- Hall Those of the afternoon were of a ginning for any one voice to utter them. They were revealed to humanity in the more public nature. morning of creation. The revelation will Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard was the continue until time shall be no more. What first of the Invited speakers to address is best in humanity answered in the begin- ning. and will answer to the end. The les- the afternoon assembly. His subject was son is that the common virtues, the common The Ground and Nature of Emerson's hopes, the common loves, the common Influence on His Own Generation, and My faiths of mankind are the foundations on which the universe is builded. and are the Personal Reminiscences of the Man." things that shall endure. There is a diver- Thomas Wentworth Higginson delivered sity of gifts, but the same spirit. There is an address which was full of personal a difference of language, but the same mes- sage. Emerson says he is base-that is the reminiscences of the Concord sage. Prof. one base thing of the universe-to receive William James of Harvard followed. benefits, and render none. Noblesse Senator George Frisbie Hoar was the last oblige.' says the chivalrous proverb of France. To whom much is given, of him speaker. In the course of his remarks much shall be required,' says the Hebrew Mr. Hoar said: Scriptures. Emerson tells us that Beauty, Love, and do not undertake to speak of Mr. Em- Truth are one. He is only another wit- erson's services to the youth of his coun- ness that Faith and Hope, and Love are try, as a guide to the best literature, or as the pillars on which all things rest, and that they abide. Their identity the Church a counsellor and inspirer to that noble and has striven for ages to express in the great brave behavior of which he was himself doctrine of the Trinity. Emerson also tells so admirable an example. I will not speak us that they are one with Duty and with of him as a eritic, to whose almost infalli- Joy. But above all these, comprehending them ble touchstone every man. brought his all, is his perception of a presence that I metal to see if It were gold. I will not hardly know how to name, and that it undertake to speak of him as a poet, or as sometimes seems he did not like to name. I asked a famous preacher what it was an orator, rising, on fit occasion, to the that he thought Emerson saw more clearly loftiest eloquence. than other men. He said: It is the Imma- nent God.' What Emerson would have have time to speak of him in but one called it if he had given it a name, I do aspect. That is, the contribution he made not know-God. the Over-Soul, the Un- to the knowledge by mankind of spiritual known. the Unity manifesting itself In laws. I think he had the farthest and clear- Beauty, in Power, in Love, in Joy. in Duty, existing everywhere, speaking in every age est spiritual discernment of any man who through some prophet of its own-it spoke has lived in modern times. His vision was to our age its high commands through the not only keen and far-sighted, but he was lips of Emerson." singularly free from the things that dis- tort or disturb. There was no local at- DIVORCE OF MRS. EDYTH WARD. traction, or temptation, or heat, or blur. So we may take him as the best witness End of Suit Against Reginald H. Ward, we know of to the spiritual facts which are Known in London as Count all around us and close to us, but yet, so many of which we cannot know, or know Ward. but imperfectly, by any seeing or hearing Justice Fitzgerald of the Supreme Court of our own. What we see ne saw more clearly. What we hear he heard more dis- signed yesterday an interlocutory decree tinctly. And always he sees a face we can- of divorce in favor of Mrs. Edyth New- not see, and hears a voice we cannot hear. comb Ward against Reginald H. Ward. Every man who is seeking a spiritual life finds in Emerson his own faith, if he Edward G. Whittaker, as referee, took all have faith, as the Christian sects find the testimony in the action. The Wards theirs in the Saviour. Now, what are the were married in this city on Nov. 26, 1889, things in which our confidence is strength- ened and deepened by the fact that he tells and the acts complained of by the wife us they are true? He has taught us the were committed here in October, 1902, and virtue of completeness, and courage, and in Paris during November of the same sincerity of utterance. In dealing with the year. things that pertain to the soul he utters no Mr. Ward is a Bostonian and a great- half truths, no plous frauds. He gives us grandson of the Revolutionary soldier Gen. no milk for babes. The purpose of Emer- Artemas Ward. Five years ago he moved son, like that of Milton. is to justify the Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ways of God to man,' and they do not need to London and acquired there a paper title to be clothed in a veil. God is not to he of Count.' By successful speculation he seen, as Moses saw him, from behind. not only materially increased his own for- He affirms that inspiration and the tune, but became popular in social circles process of revelation did not end with the through putting influential persons in a aposties and the Scriptures. It is going on way to invest their money to advantage. to-day, and all the time, to him that hath It has been reported that Mr. Ward con- ears to hear. The bush is burning still. templates marriage with an English wo- Has any man spoken to us like him of man somewhat his senlor. the virtue of a good hope, since the apos- Mrs. Ward was Miss Edyth Newcomb tle placed it forever in the centre of the of Kentucky, daughter of H. Victor New- mighty group? He saw that crime and sin comb, an important factor in Wall Street led all souls to the good. The cosmic re- until his illness forced him into a sani- sults will be the same whatever the daily tarium. events may be. He was eminently a recon- ciler. lesser orbits, even lines. Cne thing saw not seen, That owner, and forever So when freedom. love, pa- triotism, name will be the our called. So far HS can it, they can rest He In all secular immor- tality. world and the human unreasonable, inexplicable, is, he mortal His has and first literature He immortal the call that virtue, soul made larger shows case the of affirmation, their which testimony forever are victim without religion, with of the all if orbit witnesses, us mankind not the time that divergent best him. that the is only doctrine inclosed it. be to justice, victor. except statement slave the best. be prove Yet have his of he is all but makes no absolute that we shall be Whether WA shall know each other again is a Sun- day school question. He will not spend his time about it. Perhaps. as he says of Car- lyle, this nimble and active spirit does not care to beat itself against walls. But he is not, like Carlyle, a destroyer. or a scorn- er. He worships no demon of mere force. If he do not know what we long to know of another world. he pays due homage to the loving and wise Spirit that sitteth as Sovereign on the throne of this. Rather, he believes that the world is but one world, and that the Sovereign who reigns over it- never to be dethroned-knows very well that every road leads to the gates of his kingdom. Mr. Emerson's philosophy had no sto- icism in it. If it brought him ampler com- pensations than were vouchsafed to com- mon men, grief also filled to its depths a larger heart, and touched with its agony nerves more finely sensitive than those of common men. Who has uttered, like him. in that immortal threnody, the voice of parental sorrow? What more loving heart ever mourned the loss of a brother's love than that which could not be unlocked be- cause the key had gone with Charles and Edward? To cite the tributes of eminent authori- ties to the great place of Mr. Emerson in literature, and his trustworthiness as an intellectual and spiritual guide, would oc- cupy not only the day but the year. We cannot undertake to do that, But we ought to be certain that we are not in- duced by our love for our delightful friend and townsman to confound our own nar- row field of vision with that of all man- kind-especially with that of posterity. Yet that must be a fixed star of the first magnitude, of whom observers, whose ta- tions are apart by the distance of the whole heavens, concur in so reporting. When the Jew, and the Catholic, and the Unitariar, and the Anglican. and the Cal- vinist, and the Skeptic; when the Russian, and the German, and the Scotsman con- cur with his own countrymen in their estimate of a religious teacher, we may fairly believe that we have got the ver- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. The Concord Year of Harvard Page 1 of 3 Magazine The Concord Oct 1998 The Concord Year of Harvar Harvard Buildings in By D. Michael Ryan, company historian with the Concord Minute Men, an 18th Century historic interpreter with the National Park Service and Associate Dean of Students at Boston College. Historically, Concord has been renowned for its events, people, ideas and literature. However, the fact that venerable Harvard College once existed for a year (1775-76) within this town is little remembered. Harvard and Concord were not strangers. Town founders Peter Bulkeley and Simon Willard had sons graduate from the College. Citizens pledged monies to support the school's beginnings and insure a source of ministers, lawyers and teachers. Local boys attended Harvard and annually selectmen visited the campus recruiting students (needing tuition money) to instruct at its schools. Many of the local ministers were Harvard graduates and these town-gown relations insured that during a period of educational and intellectual depression (late 17th/early 18th Century), Concord remained enlightened and updated. Following the 1775 fights at Lexington and Concord, an army formed in Cambridge needing buildings for headquarters, barracks and hospitals. On 1 May, the Committee of Safety ordered the students and faculty removed from Harvard College. The fledgling army's needs increased with the battle of Bunker's Hill and the July arrival of Gen. Washington as commander-in- chief. Tradition holds that at this time, Rev. William Emerson (alumnus) while visiting the troops and school, offered the support of Concord as a site at which the College could resettle. Harvard officials accepted. Students (about 143) and faculty (about 10) were requested to gather in Concord on 4 October. 1775 Harvard settled into its new home. President Samuel Langdon resided at Dr. Timothy Minot's house (site later of Middlesex Hotel; now a park at town square); Professor Sewell at James Jones' (Bullet Hole House); Professor Wigglesworth at Bates/Anderson's (near present intersection of Old Bedford Rd./Bedford St.); Dr. and Mrs. John Winthrop at the Whitneys' (Wayside) or possibly at Capt. Stones' (west of Hildreth Corner on Barrett's Mill Rd. #222?). The College library was located in the Humphrey Barrett http://www.concordma.com/magazine/oct98/harvard.html 2/23/2007 The Concord Year of Harvard Page 2 of 3 house (Monument Rd., halfway between the Manse and town square), while science apparatus remained with Dr. Winthrop. Students lodged some at taverns much to the faculty's dismay and some at private homes (unheated, unfurnished back rooms). Dr. Joseph Lee hosted 12 students (area near 38 Willard Rd.) including son Samuel '76. While it is certain that the core of the College was in Concord center, traditions located it at other sites. Due to the number of students at the Lee home, the Willard Farm area was thought to be the school's focal point. As the road near Annursnack Hill off Barrett's Mill Rd. contained cellars of former houses which might have hosted students, was used by students to walk local girls ("lover's lane") and was named College Road, it was believed to be the College's central location. However, recitations were held at the court house, meeting house and empty grammer school all in Concord center. Travel (1-5 miles) to these locations and the homes of faculty for instruction presented hardships especially in winter. Benefits and problems of hosting Harvard were shared by Concord. The state-of-the-art, unique College Clock was moved to town for public use as was the school's fire engine. Harvard boys courted local girls, wore their academic gowns to church and spent money. They also broke the windows of the meeting house and other buildings with snowballs. Of 26 Freshmen, the average age was 15 thus leading to maturity difficulties. Student illnesses, especially smallpox, were also of concern to the citizens. However, honor came to Concord in the form of Harvard conferring its first Doctor of Laws degree on Gen. Washington in April 1776. Once the British evacuated Boston (March 1776) and the American army vacated Cambridge, impatient students pressed for a return to campus. In June, Harvard College adjourned home and held its annual exercises for the 43 Seniors. Grateful College officials forwarded a letter of appreciation to the Concord people which included an apology for any "incivilities of behavior attributed to the inadvertence of youth". The broken windows were paid for and a sum of 10 Pounds voted to the town. While some of Concord's Class of '76 went on to greatness elsewhere (a governor, 2 state Chief Supreme Court Justices and Harvard's first professor of chemistry and materia medica), others returned to serve their host town. Dr. Isaac Hurd would be a physician; Jonathan Fay, an attorney; and in 1778 Dr. Ezra Ripley would return to be First Parish minister and marry Rev. Emerson's widow Phoebe. The Concord-Harvard connection continued. Alumnus and prominent Concordian John Cuming would leave money to the College to fund a professor in physics (beginnings of Harvard Medical School). Graduates, friends and townsmen Ralph Waldo Emerson (school's Hall of Philosophy named for him) and Henry David Thoreau would bring fame to themselves, Concord and Harvard. Daniel Chester French, Concordian and creator of the Minute Man statue, would sculpture the famous statue of John Harvard. Thus, once upon a year. Concord and Harvard College were one. The history, traditions and destinies of these noted institutions did and continue to enrich and educate our citizens and nation. http://www.concordma.com/magazine/oct98/harvard.html 2/23/2007 CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE LIBRARY. H E ETHICAL RECORD PERCIVAL CHUBB, Editor VOL. IV JUNE-JULY, 1903 No. 5 CONTENTS Emerson's Presiding Idea 175 By Prof. Edward Dowden Channing, Emerson, Parker 177 By John White Chadwick Emerson as a Reformer 181 By William M. Salter Personal Reminiscences of Emerson 182 By S. Burns Weston Separate Insert: Portrait of Emerson on Japan Paper Emerson's Interpretation of Nature and the Natural Life 184 By Percival Chubb Emerson's Influence in Germany 188 By Wilhelm Spohr The Emasculation of Emerson 189 The Emerson Centennial at Concord and Boston 191 Emerson's Prophecy 193 Ethical Discipline in the Church of Rome 194 By Joseph McCabe The Need of a Civic Parliament and an Inter-Municipal League 197 By Charles Sprague Smith Outline of a Course of Ethical Instruction 198 Books That Concern Us 202 Work of the New York Society for Ethical Culture 210 THE ETHICAL RECORD, a magazine of practical ethics, is published bi-monthly, except August-September. It appeals to all. those who are interested in the treatment of the prob- lems of personal and social life from the ethical point of view. Its contributors are not confined to adherents of the Ethical Movement, but include those who are especially quali- fied to deal with current issues from this standpoint. 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He gives them ideals, he inspires them CENTENNIAL with noble purposes and he has the heroic temper they need in a teacher. To an increasing number of persons Emerson is a prophet of the new faith in which they find life and joy. He is, in fact, a great religious teacher, not of May 25, 1903 the conventional type, and not of the religion of form and ritual. His is a religion of the inward life, of direct intuition of spiritual realities, and of individual EXTRACTS FROM A FEW OF THE MANY faith. He is preached in all churches, but many who TRIBUTES TO EMERSON CALLED FORTH have found truth in him will not belong to any com- BY THE CENTENNIAL OBSERVANCES pany of worshipers. He comes especially to the FROM SOME OF THE LEADING SCHOLARS lonely, the struggling, and those who have painfully OF TO-DAY found their way to individual liberty. For such as these he has a courageous and strenuous word, one that fits well into their need. He has helped many everywhere to find in religion something real, vital, and natural; something that is in harmony with the facts of life and the daily experiences of men. THE EMERSON CENTENNIAL THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON From the Boston Transcript, May 29, 1903 ALL Boston, all New England, and to a great ex- From the Outlook, May 23, 1903 ent all the United States has observed the one hun- Undoubtedly the most remarkable example that we Iredth anniversary of the birth of Ralph Waldo Emer- have had in America of the selection of leading names- on during the week just passed. The actual birthday by a picked class of electors - a method which was vas on Monday, May 25, but the day most generally the ideal of our ancestors, and which the Presidential elected was the Sunday preceding, when from pulpits electoral body unsuccessfully tried to put in practice nd platforms everywhere Emerson's words and philo- - was in the voting for a Hall of Fame in New ophy were read and discussed. The widespread York, as given by a hundred men and women, or, ublic interest in the various memorial meetings, and more accurately, by ninety-seven men and three he expressions of gratitude and admiration made by women, selected with what seemed to be the greatest nen of varying creeds and beliefs, have shown the care. It consisted of twenty-five chief justices, Na- eep hold which Emerson's philosophy has taken on tional and State twenty-five presidents of colleges he generations succeeding him. twenty-five professors of history or scientists; and twenty-five publicists, editors, and authors. All but From the Boston Daily Advertiser, May 23, 1903 three. of these cast their votes and succeeded in elect- There has never been a more striking tribute to ing twenty-nine candidates out of the possible fifty; 1e force and dignity of character and intellect than a majority, not a mere plurality, being required. The he unanimous accord with which scholars and men first seven of these, as was natural, were taken from f affairs in this centenary year are offering their hom- public life. Next to these, being eighth in order, ge to the memory of the quiet scholar and gentleman came Emerson. Washington, alone among them, ho in all his life held no public office of promi- had every vote cast, 97; Lincoln and Webster had ence, who sought fame through none of the usual 96, Franklin 94, Grant 93, Marshall and Jefferson hannels, who used no adventitious means of noto- 91 each, Emerson 87. Every other author, every ety, but lived his own life in simple sincerity. other poet, every great inventor, merchant, or scien- This summer there will be a reawakening of inter- tist, remained below - only three other literary men y, to heroic effort in behalf of duty, reason, and jus- being, indeed, included - Longfellow, Irving, and ce. No one who has found his way into the full Hawthorne. The decision was not, of course, infalli- tent of Emerson's teaching can love compromise, ble, but it was a remarkable testimonial to the recog- ase, or moral acquiescence. He demands that the nized leadership of our foremost literary man. Let us 28 ask, What was the key to his power At the head of American letters Emerson must is a proof of the many-sidedness of Emerson stand his voice first called his countrymen to original so many people seek to determine this key, work, and his Essays are still the highest fruits of ether they grasp it or not. When a man takes this American vocation. Among the greater religious etly a supreme hold upon the thought even of his forces of the nineteenth century Emerson must stand, n country, it is inevitable to ask the source of his not because he influenced the largest numbers, but be- luence; and it is difficult to look back upon the cause he gave forth one wholesome and governing at literary leaders of the world without seeing that idea. That governing idea, issuing its call to come y may be divided into the system-makers and the face to face with all reality, has not been unavailing. n-system-makers, and without also seeing that the Men whose religious idiom is far away from that of er class endure the longest, on the whole. Plato Emerson have heard the call, first from other and I so little system that we rarely know at any given more potent thinkers, but afterwards strengthened by ment whether he is speaking for himself or for his clear utterance and they have answered it. They rates, his master. Aristotle had his own system, are struggling forward into immediate relations with we care in comparison little for it. The great humanity they are trying to see man and all his glish, Scotch, French, and German philosophers interests, the order of the world and God, face to S in review, and we see how they succeed and re- face; they believe that only in this immediate vision ce one another. But Epictetus, Marcus Antoninus, of truth can the life of men be preserved. leca, still live their detached maxims outlast the tems of others; they did not displace each other ; SENATOR GEORGE F. HOAR Y versions of them constantly appear, perhaps to ind us that it is, after all, the fragmentary and un- From the address at Concord, Mass., May 25, 1903 tematic teacher that we most need. Renan's fine He has taught us the virtue of completeness, and ark about the works of Marcus Antoninus, that courage, and sincerity of utterance. In dealing with ey will never grow antiquated, because they em- the things that pertain to the soul he utters no half y no dogma," might have been made for Emerson. truths, no pious frauds. He gives us no milk for eard the same point made by that very acute babes. The purpose of Emerson, like that of Mil- ker Mr. Griggs, who said of Emerson, " He did ton, is to justify the ways of God to man, and they aim to combine, and was therefore always fertiliz- do not need to be clothed in a veil. God is not to like Plato." Of course the lack of system may be seen, as Moses saw him, from behind. worse than any system, just as non-ostentation He affirms that inspiration and the process of re- become more offensive than ostentation but it velation did not end with the Apostles and the Scrip- he man who is oppressed by neither that we like tures. It is going on to-day, and all the time, to him best. There may have been moments when Emer- that hath ears to hear. The bush is burning still. yearned for a formal method - in his first lecture The spiritual message comes to each man for him- The Natural History of the Intellect" he seemed self, which he can trust and which he must act upon e trying for it, but the second lecture of the course " Trust thyself Every nerve vibrates to that iron er came. He holds us by his detached sentences; string." The universe is for the building up of in- e take those to heart, each reader perhaps carrying dividual character. Each soul is to be a star and y a different sentence, it is all we ask. dwell apart. Men should greet each other every morning as coming from far countries like the DR. GEORGE A. GORDON Gods, who sit apart, and talk from peak to peak all around Olympus. From the Atlantic Monthly, May, 1903 merson was an original thinker, a writer of dig- He has made the best statement in all secular lit- and charm, a profoundly poetic nature, and one erature of the doctrine of immortality. He shows us be loftiest spirits of his century. As an American that the world and the human soul are not only un- of letters he is of unique and enduring signifi- reasonable, but inexplicable, without it. Yet he makes :C. His perception of the living world of men is no absolute affirmation, except that we shall be im- and abiding his sense of the meaning of litera- mortal if that be best. Whether we shall know each its relativity to life, is clear and high ; his ideals other again is a Sunday-school question. He will not contributor to literature are a precious tradition, spend his time about it. Perhaps, as he says of Carlyle, his work remains the best that Americans pos- this nimble and active spirit does not care to beat it- self against walls. But he is not, like Carlyle, a de- stroyer, or a scorner. He worships no demon of mere force. If he does not know what we long to 29 another world, he pays due homage to the fifth day of May, one hundred years ago, the country 1 wise Spirit that sitteth as Sovereign on the was provincial in culture, taste, and attitude; it had this. Rather, he believes that the world is separated from the Old World on political grounds, orld, and that the Sovereign who reigns over but its spiritual fortunes were bound up in the for- r to be dethroned - knows very well that tunes of the older societies it sat at the feet of d leads to the gates of his kingdom. He sees Europe, and its intellectual life was essentially deriva- if force or of disdain looking down on man- tive. To Emerson more than to any other single on a race of groveling swine or chattering person or force was due the spiritual emancipation of or myself, I never read what Emerson says the new nation. He first interpreted the growing mortality, or think of him as thinking about democratic community, not only to the world, but to it summing it all up in Addison's noble line, itself, by defining its fundamental conception of the The Soul, secure in her existence, smiles." place and value of the individual man, by developing Emerson first uttered his grave and cheer- its consciousness of historical unity with the older there still echoed in the ear of mankind the races at the same time that he declared its spiritual dain inspired by the diseased brain of Carlyle, independence, by showing in his own life and thought and speech how the culture of the race, accumulated imagined the serene and silent stars looking with infinite toil, self-denial, and self-expression, could m their eternal solitudes on the varied occu- be held and used with unfettered freedom and entire of men. " What thinks Boötes of them as self-reliance. his hunting dogs across the zenith in their There must have come "to many who heard the sidereal fire What thinks Boötes of address on The American Scholar," delivered in Boötes is but a few specks of shining dust, Cambridge on the last day of August, 1837, a sense g with putrescent light, save as he is clothed of something great and prophetic Lowell described uty and with glory in the conscious soul of it as "an event without any former parallel in our The only thing in the world, under him who literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the that can ever be truly an object of reverence memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. ian soul subjecting itself, of its own volition, What crowded and breathless aisles, what windows higher than its own desire. The answer to clustering with eager heads, what enthusiasm of ap- of the old world came from the seer of the proval, what grim silence of foregone dissent." The address was not only an epitome of Emerson's view So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, of life; it was a quiet, well-poised, but perfectly ar- When Duty whispers low, ' Thou must, ticulate, declaration of intellectual independence. It The Youth replies, can. is the second great formal document in the history of the emancipation of the American people. It an- PROF. HUGO MÜNSTERBERG nounced the moment when " the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and in address delivered at Cambridge, May 18, 1903 fill the postponed expectation of the world with some- wave of Idealism is rising. The short-sighted thing better than the exertions of mechanical skill. ition of Positivism will not lurk under the roof Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to W hall of philosophy. To be a true student of the learning of other lands, draws to a close. st scientific, of the most scholarly, of the most We will walk on our own feet; we will work with it philosophy means to respect and to study hard our own hands; we will speak our own minds. ences, the physical and the psychical sciences, A nation of men will for the first time exist, be- the same time to understand that natural science cause each believes himself inspired by the Divine the science of reality, that psychology does not Soul which also inspires all souls." the freedom of man, that no life has a meaning it the relation to the Over-soul. We cannot More distinctly than any other man who has ap- a whole system and a whole text-book on the peared among us, Emerson affirmed the presence of of the new building. It must be enough to there a symbolic word. Happy, forever happy, the divine in every human being, the direct and per- niversity which can write over the door of its sonal relation between each man and the Infinite, the : of philosophy the name, Ralph Waldo Emer- authority of individual insight, the dignity of the indi- vidual soul; and this is, in a true sense, not only the basal idea, but the religion of democracy. HAMILTON W. MABIE From Harper's Magazine, May, 1903 Emerson's quiet but resolute assertion of the right en Emerson was born, in Boston, on the twenty- of every age to select its teachers, and of every man 30 straight to the sources of truth, seemed to Her- the success or failure of the new society shall be Grimm profoundly significant. He speaks with measured by its service in the emancipation of the e of oppression of the immense accumulation soul, the exaltation of man. lowledge, the heritage of decades of centuries, which the mind of the Old World staggers. HAMILTON W. MABIE best powers barely suffice," he says, " to enable glance over what has been already accomplished. From the Ladies' Home Journal, May, 1903 ald be hailed as a blessing if some one could He read widely, knew literature in several languages, ice us that the heritage of our ancestors is to be was familiar with the older thought of the East and ide, that untrammeled we may press on to the with the younger thought of Europe but he believed before us." And he saw that this was precisely that each age must do its own thinking, write its own :vvice which the poet and thinker of the New books, and live its own life. He believed profoundly 1 was doing in a reverent spirit but with a per- in the divinity of man in the right of each man to free mind. Emerson estimated at their full have a personal relation with God, and in the equal- the accumulations of knowledge which lay in ity which equal access to the Infinite establishes on ults of Europe, but he was resolute that his an indestructible basis. He was, therefore, an Amer- people should make their own intellectual and ican of the Americans in his faith in free government, al fortunes; that they should be not only heirs in free schools, in open libraries, in the widest oppor- past, but producers of present wealth. They tunities for education and growth. To him America not to feel too heavily the weight of history meant Opportunity. He rejoiced in the simplicity of vere not to respect too deeply the authority of American life, in the democracy of American society. on they were to see, feel, think, and act for He was the most eloquent preacher of self-reliance elves; they were to "enjoy an original relation we have had. He was not afraid of commercial pros- : universe. The sun shines to-day also. perity and he took delight in the working power of is more wool and flax in the fields. There are the country but he insisted on keeping the things ands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand made with the hands in subjection to the things made vn works and laws and worship." by the spirit, in keeping the soul free from bondage to conventions or to the burdens and cares which come e greatness with which Emerson invested the with wealth, in placing civic greatness above political 1 spirit was reflected not only in his own bear- success, and in the duty of the Republic to give the it in his whole dealing with knowledge and art, world a new kind of diplomacy and a new example his own style. In diverting attention from the of unselfish public life. ngs and insignia of public and social distinction, stening it upon the spirit behind the accidents Emerson's most characteristic works are his poems, idents of life, he discarded the conventions and his essays, " Representative Men," " Nature," So- ons of the art of writing, and spoke from his ciety and Solitude," and his occasional addresses. He with perfect simplicity and directness. was not a great poet in the range of his thought or the account of the nation with this beautiful the perfection of his art, but he has left a few poems rophetic spirit it is clear there is still a great descriptive or interpretive of Nature on her more edness to be discharged for time has revealed mysterious or symbolic sides which have a place of increasing distinctness the service of one of their own by reason of their insight, their sense of the an eminent Frenchman has said " America unity of things, their pure and spiritual beauty. In alted him because she saw herself in him, and the occasional addresses, spoken mainly to young men S her conscience." Concerning the quality and and on college occasions, Emerson presented the of his work there is general agreement; he has idealistic conception of life with noble urgency and a ed the reaction which follows the death of a quiet and persuasive confidence, expressed not only of original and individual force; the defects of in his words but also in the serenity of his bearing and rose, the limitations of his verse, are clear in the rare beauty of his expression. He was a win- h; but the depth of his insight, the lift of his ning speaker his voice was singularly expressive of ht, the freshness of his spirit, the felicity of his his thought, and he bore himself like one who came ) and its penetration, the wholeness and sym- from a higher and purer world than ours. His mes- of his life : these are far beyond the region sage to young men was a simple one, as all really estioning. He explained America to herself in deep and noble messages must be : follow the highest of the spiritual life, he set man in his true place things resolutely believe in the best that is in you New World, he has kept the conscience of the " hitch your wagon to a star" ; trust in yourself; and established for all time the doctrine that live your own life; keep yourself unspotted from the 31 His essays contain his philosophy of life and carried on against much active opposition and more confession of faith, his view of democracy, sluggish obstruction. The system is a method of ed- ght about human relations, occupations, re- ucational organization which recognizes the immense pleasures, in a style which seems obscure at expansion of knowledge during the nineteenth cen- cause the results of thinking rather than its tury, and takes account of the needs and capacities of S are presented, but which is, at its best, mar- the individual child and youth. Now, Emerson laid simple, sincere, and beautiful. down in plain terms the fundamental doctrines on essays are full of passages of that kind of elo- which this elective system rests. He taught that the which is the matching of great thoughts with one prudence in life is concentration the one evil, ords. He belongs, with Hawthorne and Poe, dissipation. He said " You must elect your work ont rank of American writers; and in range, you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the spirituality, he is our foremost man of letters. rest." To this exhortation he added the educational quaintance with his pure and beautiful genius reason for it, - only by concentration can the youth can be made only by acquaintance with his arrive at the stage of doing something with his This country has given the world nothing knowledge, or get beyond the stage of absorbing and hey ought to be in every American home and arrive at the capacity for producing. As Emerson puts it, " Only so can that amount of vital force ac- cumulate which can make the step from knowing to PRESIDENT CHARLES W. ELIOT doing." The educational institutions of to-day have not yet fully appreciated this all-important step from address in Symphony Hall, Boston, May 24, 1903 knowing to doing. They are only beginning to per- ceive that, all along the course of education, the child EDUCATION and the youth should be doing something as well as e up now the prophetic teachings of Emerson learning something should be stimulated and trained gard to education. In the first place, he saw, by achievement; should be constantly encouraged to clearness to which very few people have yet take the step beyond seeing and memorizing to doing, I, the fundamental necessity of the school as - the step, as Emerson says, " out of a chalk circle t civilizing agency, after steady labor, and the of imbecility into fruitfulness." Emerson carried this re means of permanent and progressive reform. doctrine right on into mature life, He taught that S outright We shall one day learn to super- nature arms each man with some faculty, large or litics by education. What we call our root- small, which enables him to do easily some feat im- inch reforms, of slavery, war, gambling, intem- possible to any other, and thus makes him necessary :, is only medicating the symptoms. We must to society; and that this faculty should determine the higher up namely, in education." He taught man's career. The advocates of the elective system we hope to reform mankind, we must begin have insisted that its results were advantageous for th adults, but with children : we must begin at society as a whole, as well as for the individual. There are some signs that this doctrine has Emerson put this argument in a nut-shell, at least t last entered the minds of the so-called prac- fifty years ago Society can never prosper, but must hen. The Cubans are to be raised in the scale always be bankrupt, until every man does that which ilization and public happiness so both they he was created to do." think they must have more and better schools. Filipinos, too, are to be developed after the can fashion; so we send them a thousand We are all of us aware that within the last twenty rs of English. The Southern states are to be years there has been a determined movement of the d from the persistent poison of slavery; and, American people toward the cultivation of art, toward orty years of failure with political methods, we the public provision of objects which open the sense accept Emerson's doctrine, and say We of beauty and increase public enjoyment. It is curi- begin earlier, at school." The city slums are ous to see how literally Emerson prophesied the actual redeemed ; and the scientific charity workers direction of these efforts ne best way is to get the children into kindergar- nd manual training schools. On the city's paved street Plant gardens lined with lilac sweet ; ce the civil war, a whole generation of educa- Let spouting fountains cool the air, administrators has been steadily at work devel- Singing in the sun-baked square ; what is called the elective system in the institu- Let statue, picture, park, and hall, Ballad, Aag, and festival of education which deal with the ages above The past restore, the day adorn, It has been a slow, step-by-step process, And make to-morrow a new morn 32 ve introduced into our schools, of late years, college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, drawing, modeling, and designing,- stop with some past utterance of genius. They V, but in a promising and hopeful way. look backward and not forward. But genius looks taught that it is the office of art to educate forward. Man hopes genius creates. Whatever tal- tion of beauty and he precisely describes ents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of e most recent of the new tendencies in the Deity is not :-cinders and smoke there may education and social life, when he says be, but not yet flame." And more explicitly still, he must come back to the useful arts, and the says " Colleges have their indispensable office,- I between the fine and the useful arts be for- to teach elements, But they can only highly serve us That sentence is the inspiration of one of when they aim not to drill, but to create." When recent of the efforts to improve the arts and Emerson wrote this passage, the spirit of research, or I to restore to society the artistic craftsman. discovery, or creation had not yet breathed life into slow the institutional realization of this ideal the higher institutions of learning in our country cation ! We are still struggling in our ele- and to-day they have much to do and to acquire before and secondary schools to get a reasonable they will conform to Emerson's ideal. instruction in drawing and music, and to SOCIAL CONDITIONS om other subjects a fair allotment of time to I turn next to some examples of Emerson's antici- aluable elements of true culture. They pation of social conditions, visible to him as seer in universal language. Yet the ultimate ob- his own day, and since become plain to the sight of in education is to teach men to see nature the ordinary millions. When he accumulated in his tiful and at the same time useful beauti- journals the original materials of his essay on Worship, ISC alive and reproductive; useful, while there were no large cities in the United States in the al and fair. Take up to-day the last essays present sense of that term. The great experiment of de- ion, the last book on landscape architecture, mocracy was not far advanced, and had not developed shest teachings of the principles of design, many of its sins and dangers; yet how justly he pre- will find them penctrated with Emerson's sented them in the following description " In our of art as teacher of mankind. Emerson large cities the population is godless, materialized, in' and again that true culture must open no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are of beauty that " a man is a beggar who not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites to the useful." walking. How is it people manage to live on, so aimless as they are There is faith in chemis- erson's early days there was nothing in our try, in meat and wine, in wealth, in machinery, in the nd colleges which at all corresponded to steam-engine, galvanic battery, turbine wheels, sew- now know too much about under the name ing-machines, and in public opinion, but not in divine C sports. The elaborate organization of causes." ts is a development of the last thirty years In Emerson's day, luxury in the present sense had hools and colleges; but I find in Emerson hardly been developed in our country but he fore- eason for the athletic cult, given a genera- saw its coming, and its insidious destructiveness. e it existed among us. Your boy hates the We spend our incomes for paint and paper, for a and Gradus, and loves guns, fishing-rods, hundred trifles, I know not what, and not for the d boats. Well, the boy is right, and you are things of a man. Our expense is almost all for con- direct his bringing-up, if your theory leaves formity, It is for cake that we run in debt it is not the rymnastic training. Football, cricket, intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that wimming, skating, climbing, fencing, riding costs us so much. Why needs any man be rich IS in the art of power, which it is his main Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome :0 learn. Besides, the gun, fishing-rod, apartments, access to public houses and places of horse constitute, among all who use them, amusement Only for want of thought. We e-masonries." We shall never find a com- are first thoughtless, and then find that we are money- tification of athletic sports than that. less. We are first sensual and then must be rich." memorable address on " The American He foresaw the young man's state of mind to-day which was given at Cambridge in 1837, about marriage. must have money before I can pointed out that the function of the scholar marry and deals with it thus Give us wealth and clude creative action, or, as we call it in the home shall exist. But that is a very imperfect 's, research, or the search for new truth. He and inglorious solution of the problem, and therefore The soul active utters truth, or creates. no solution, Give us wealth You ask too much ! its essence it is progressive. The book, the Few have wealth; but all must have a home. Men 33 are not born rich in getting wealth the man is gen- Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, erally sacrificed, and often without acquiring wealth But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings. at last." The universe was ever new and fresh in his eyes, not In his lecture on Man the Reformer," which was spent, or fallen, or degraded, but eternally tending read before the Mechanics' Apprentices' Association upward : - in Boston in January, 1841, Emerson described in the clearest manner the approaching strife between " No ray is dimmed, no atom worn, My oldest force is good as new, laborers and employers, between poor and rich, and And the fresh rose on yonder thorn pointed out the cause of this strife in the selfish- Gives back the bending heavens in dew.' ness, unkindness, and mutual distrust which ran through the community. He also described, with per- It was a prophetic quality of Emerson's religious fect precision, the only ultimate remedy, - namely, teaching that he sought to obliterate the distinction he-sentiment of love. " Love would put a new face between secular and sacred. For him all things were on this weary old world in which we dwell as pagans sacred, just as the universe was religious. We see an and enemies too long. The virtue of this prin- interesting fruition of Emerson's sowing in the nature diple in human society in application to great inter- of the means of influence which organized churches usts is obsolete and forgotten. But one day all men and devout people have, in these later days, been will be lovers; and every calamity will be dissolved compelled to resort to. Thus the Catholic Church in the universal sunshine." It is more than sixty keeps its hold on its natural constituency quite as years since those words were uttered, and in those much by schools, gymnasiums, hospitals, entertain- years society has had large experience of industrial ments, and social parades as it does by its rites and and social strife, of its causes and consequences, and sacraments. The Protestant Churches maintain in of (many attempts to remedy or soften it but all this city slums " settlements," which use secular rather experience only goes to show that there is but one than the so-called sacred methods, The fight against remedy for these ills. It is to be found in kindness, drunkenness, and the sexual vice and crimes of vio- good fellowship, and the affections. In Emerson's lence which follow in its train, is most successfully words, " We must be lovers, and at once the impos- maintained by eliminating its physical causes and pro- sible becomes possible." The world will wait long viding mechanical and social protections. for this remedy, but there is no other. For Emerson inspiration meant not the rare con- RELIGION veyance of supernatural power to an individual, but In no field of thought was Emerson more pro- the constant incoming into each men of the " divine phetic, more truly a prophet of coming states of soul which also inspires all men." He believed in human opinion, than in religion. In the first place, the worth of the present hour - he taught that religion is absolutely natural, - not Future or Past no richer secret folds, upernatural, but natural Oh friendless Present ! than thy bosom holds." Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. He believed that the spiritual force of human char- acter imaged the divine - He believed that revelation is natural and continuous, and that in all ages prophets are born. Those souls The sun set, but set not his hope : Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up : out of time proclaim truth, which may be momen- Fixed on the enormous galaxy, tarily received with reverence, but is nevertheless Deeper and older seemed his eye," quickly dragged down into some savage interpretation Yet man is not an order of nature, but a stupendous which by and by a new prophet will purge away. He antagonism, because he chooses and acts in his soul. believed that man is guided by the same power that " So far as a man thinks, he is free." It is interest- guides beast and flower. " The selfsame power that brought me here brought you," he says to beautiful ing to-day, after all the long discussion of the doctrine of evolution, to see how the much earlier conceptions Rhodora. For him worship is the attitude of those of Emerson match the thoughts of the latest expo- who see that against all appearances the nature of nents of the philosophic results of evolution. things works for truth and right forever." He saw good not only in what we call beauty, grace, and We know a good deal about the intellectual ances- light, but in what we call foul and ugly. For him a tors and inspirers of Emerson, and we are sure that lky-born music sounds " from all that's fair: from all what's foul " - he drank deep at many springs of idealism and poetry. Plato, Confucius, Shakespeare, and Milton were of " 'Tis not in the high stars alone, his teachers Oken, Lamarck, and Lyell lent him Nor in the cups of budding flowers, Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone, their scientific theories and Channing stirred the 34 esiduum which came down to him through his for- ical and poetical sources of their inspiration. Then ears from Luther, Calvin, and Edwards. All these the Jewish and Christian peoples may come nearer materials he transmuted and moulded into lessons than they do now to Emerson's conceptions of inspi- which have his own individual quality and bear his ration and worship, of the naturalness of revelation stamp. The precise limits of his originality are inde- and religion, and of the infinite capacities of man. terminable, and inquiry into them would be unprofit- Meantime, it is an indisputable fact that Emerson's able. In all probability the case would prove to be thought has proved to be consonant with the most much the same with most of the men that the world progressive and fruitful thinking and acting of two has named prophets, if we knew as much of their generations since his working time. This fact, and mental history as we know of Emerson's. With re- the sweetness, fragrance, and loftiness of his spirit, ard to the Semitic prophets and seers, it is reasonable prophesy for him an enduring power in the hearts and to expect that as Semitic exploration and discovery lives of spiritually minded men. advance, the world will learn much about the histor- JMMANUEL KANT. yolf D U.S.POSTAGE UNITED STATES 1948 STAR MOTHERS 3 CENTS 3 3POSTAGE 3 he Centenary of te Butte of Ragsh waldo Susan CONTENTS Boston R.iveride Press, 1903 PAGE THE MORNING 1 MORNING INTRODUCTION 3 ADDRESS OF WILLIAM LORENZO EATON 5 ADDRESS OF LEBARON RUSSELL BRIGGS 14 THE AFTERNOON 31 AFTERNOON INTRODUCTION 33 PRAYER BY LOREN BENJAMIN MACDONALD 34 ADDRESS OF SAMUEL HOAR 36 ADDRESS OF CHARLES ELIOT NORTON 45 ADDRESS OF THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON 58 ADDRESS OF WILLIAM JAMES 67 ADDRESS OF GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR 78 THE EVENING 95 EVENING INTRODUCTION 97 OPENING REMARKS, BY JOHN SHEPARD KEYES 99 SPEECH OF CAROLINE HAZARD 99 SPEECH OF MOORFIELD STOREY 104 LETTER FROM JAMES BRYCE AND OTHERS 111 SPEECH OF HUGO MUNSTERBERG 113 SPEECH OF EDWARD WALDO EMERSON 119 THE CONCORD HyMN 128 APPENDIX 129 THE SOCIAL CIRCLE AND COMMITTEES 137 WONEGIO 1 (1903) SERIES III. PUBLISHED VOLS. 52 THE EMERSON CENTENARY ADDRESS OF CHARLES ELIOT NORTON 53 closed in them. It resided, I believe, in the fact that he lived more in accord with the moral order of the My own relations with Emerson began after his soul than other men, more as one whose soul was position as poet and seer was established, not with the always open to the influences of the divine spirit, great public indeed, bnt with the best of his contem- however that spirit be defined. In this was the source poraries. Twenty-five years younger than he, I felt at first a certain hesitancy and shyness in personal of the serenity and elevation of his own spirit, and in relations with him, not only because of the disparity it was also the source of that clear insight into the significance of common life and daily trivial affairs of age, and the distinction of his place in the esteem of worthy men, but also because my father had been which his reflections upon them and his aphorisms conspicuous in opposition to the drift of his teach- concerning them display. In 1870, after reading Emerson's volume entitled ings and had used language of severe condemnation of them. It seemed to me possible that Mr. Emerson, Society and Solitude, Carlyle wrote to him in well- though too high-minded to feel resentment toward chosen words It seems to me you are all your old an upright and high-minded opponent, might yet in- self here, and something more. A calm insight, cline to hold back from more than merely formal piercing to the very centre; a beautiful sympathy, a beautiful epic humor; a soul peaceably irrefragable acquaintance with me. But I was mistaken. From the beginning of our intercourse he treated me with in this loud-jangling world, of which it sees the ugli- a simple graciousness and frank confidence that set ness, but notices only the huge new opulences (still so me at ease with him, and quickened in me that affec- anarchic) knows the electric telegraph, with all its tion and reverence which I have just spoken of his vulgar botherations and impertinences, accurately for what it is, and ditto ditto the oldest eternal Theolo- inspiring in every one who had the happiness of coming into close relation with him. gies of men. All this belongs to the Highest Class Thirty years ago this month I had the opportunity of thought; and again seemed to me as, in several re- of seeing more of him, and of being in more constant spects, the one perfectly Human Voice I had heard relation with him than at any other time. He was among my fellow-creatures for a long time. And returning with his daughter from his last visit to then the style,' the treatment and expression, - yes, Europe, and I, with my family, was a fellow passenger it is inimitable, - Emersonian throughout. on the steamer. There was no crowd on board; the You have done very well ; and many will know it vessel was not one of the swift Leviathans of to-day. ever better by degrees." The judgment of the friend We had long walks together on the deck; and in the is confirmed by that of the new generation. evening, after the rest of the passengers had gone PUBLISHED VOLS. 54 THE EMERSON CENTENARY ADDRESS OF CHARLES ELIOT NORTON 55 to their berths, he and I used to sit talking together He would not entertain for a moment the evidence for an hour or two, till eleven o'clock, when the lights of ruthlessness and disorder in nature, of perversion were extinguished in the deserted cabin. The visit of the moral nature in men. His faith was superior to Europe and to Egypt had been undertaken, as to any apparent exceptions to his doctrine; all of them some of you will remember, at the urgency of friends, could be brought into accordance with it. in the belief that a change of scene and interest In our long evening talks he told me much of his would be serviceable to him after the shock which early life. He was often in a mood of reminiscence, he had experienced from the burning of his house in and in the retrospect all life lay fair behind him, like the summer, and the depressed condition of health a pleasant landscape illumined by the slowly sinking which had followed it. It had done him all the good sun. The sweetness and purity and elevation of his GBD? that had been hoped for, and he now seemed in nature were manifest in his recollections, and his excellent health and spirits. vision of the past was that not only of the poet, but 'It is rank blasphemy," said he one day, to of the good man who had gained from life the best doubt anything in the universe everything in life it can afford. He returned over and over again to the makes for good. The moral element in man supreme, happiness of life and the joy of existence. He had is progressive. Man is always better than himself. been very fortunate in his times. The world is all for happiness, and is meant for the The 25th of May, his seventieth birthday, was happy. It is always improving. Pain and sorrow are the last day before the voyage ended. When I of no account as compared with the joy of living: if greeted him in the morning, he replied with a plea- a man be overcome by them he violates the moral sant semi-humorous smile, and with a blush like a order." youth, You are too good with all these kind words, "The universe is not a cheat; the beauty and the but the day is a melancholy one for me, for I count order of the external world are sufficient proof that this seventieth birthday as the close of youth He the spiritual world is in accord with the hopes and had been reading with great interest on the voyage instincts of man and nature for their own perfection." the quatrains of Omar Khayyám, and one of them "Order, goodness, God are the one everlasting, may have been lingering in his mind: self-existent fact." "I measure a man's intellectual sanity by his faith Yet Oh ! that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close 1 in immortality. A wise man's wish for life is in pro- The nightingale that in the branches sang, portion to his wisdom." Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows SERIES III. PUBLISHED VOLS. 56 THE EMERSON CENTENARY ADDRESS OF CHARLES ELIOT NORTON 57 But my thoughts fell back to his own Terminus, On the last occasion that I saw him at his own written ten years before not so much to its opening house his powers of recollection were imperfect, but words, " It is time to grow old," but rather to the his gracious benignity was unchanged. His talk had verses with which it ends - its old tone, though the intermittent thoughts some- " As the bird trims her to the gale, times failed to find perfect expression. As I was I trim myself to the storm of time, bidding him good-bye at his hospitable door, his I man the rudder, reef the sail, daughter, who proposed to go with me to the rail- Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime road station, urged him to accompany us. "No," said Lowly faithful, banish fear, he, no, my dear, my good friend whose name I can- Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, not recall, has had quite enough of me to-day ;" and And every wave is charmed." then turning to me with a smile, as if to apologize for the seeming lack of courtesy in his inability to One day, a day of rough waves and lowering skies, recall my name, he said in words and manner like as we walked the deck, he spoke of the stout hearts his old self, " Strange that the kind Heavens should of the early mariners, sailing the untracked seas. keep us upon earth after they have destroyed our How, in Heaven's name, did Columbus get over connection with things as Clough asks. "Not so much of a wonder after The last time I saw him was at the funeral of all," said Emerson; Columbus had his compass, and Longfellow on the 26th of March, just a month be- that was enough for such a soul as his; there was fore his own death. He leaned on my arm as we the miracle of the magnet, the witness of the divine walked through the path at Mt. Auburn behind the spirit in nature, type of the eternal control of matter poet's coffin, and as we stood listening to the short by spirit, of fidelity to the unseen and the ideal. I service at the grave. He hardly seemed to belong to always carry with me a little compass," and taking our actual life he was present but yet remote; for it from his pocket, he added, I like to hold the god him, too, The port well worth the cruise was near." in my hand." If there be pathos in the record of these last days, He lived for nine years after his return home. there is no drop of bitterness in it. They were the Some of you remember his gently declining days. peaceful ending of a happy life. "Enoch walked The evening mists steadily gathered about him, but with God; and he was not, for God took him." while they gradually obscured the light of his mind, Emerson's fame is secure. The years will sift his they were still suffused by the unquenched glow of work, but his true message and service were not for his spirit. His sweetness, his faith never failed. UNLT 1 (1903). SERIES III. PUBLISHED VOLS. 58 THE EMERSON CENTENARY ADDRESS OF T. W. HIGGINSON 59 his own generation alone. It is not the founders respond to it. The point upon which I am to speak, of schools whose influence is the strongest and most as I understand, is the record of Ralph Waldo lasting in the world, but rather that of teachers who Emerson as a reformer. lift and invigorate the souls of men by sentiment and In viewing him thus, we may well recall Father habitual loftiness of view. Men draw strength and Taylor, the famous preacher to sailors in Boston, high resolve to-day, after seventeen centuries, from who, when criticised by some fellow Methodists for the desultory Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, and being a friend of Emerson, inasmuch as he was a in long future time men seeking to elevate and lib- man who, they thought, must surely go to hell, re- erate their souls will find help in the words and ex- plied, "It does look so; but I am sure of one thing; ample in the character of Emerson. if Emerson goes to hell it will change the climate The Chairman then introduced Colonel Thomas there and emigration will set that way." The wide- spread commemorations of this month show that Wentworth Higginson. Father Taylor, as usual, was right. They imply that Emerson was not merely a technical reformer, but stood to the world as a vital influence and repre- ADDRESS OF sented the general attitude of reform. Above all thought rises the freedom to think; above all utter- THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON ance ranks the liberty to utter. The man who first WHEN one opens the morning's newspaper on a day asserted that liberty at a given time, and, in assert- like this and finds it filled, like all its companion ing it, made it attractive and convincing, became journals, with eulogiums upon one man, it is diffi- the leader of his period. It was Emerson who did cult not to recall that fine passage in Landor's this for us. From the moment that his volume called Imaginary Conversations, where Demosthenes says Nature was published in 1836, the thraldom of of Athens, I have seen the day when the most Puritanism was broken and men were summoned to august of cities had but one voice within her walls; follow the Inner Light. William Penn and the and when the stranger, on entering them, stopped early Friends had stretched out their hands for this at the silence of the gateway, and said, Demos- attitude, but had never quite reached it, because thenes is speaking in the assemblage of the people.' still somewhat fettered by the tradition of Bible One controlling voice speaks to us to-day and all worship, and by a persecuting clergy of whom Wil- that we can do is in our humbler individual tones to 1 Conway Emerson at Home and Abroad, p. 66. SERIES III. PUBLISHED VOLS. 112 THE EMERSON CENTENARY SPEECH OF HUGO MÜNSTERBERG 113 Miss AGNES C. MAITLAND, Somerville College, Oxford. bridge, at an expense of $150,000, which sum he has Professor HENRY GOUDY, D. C. L., Oxford. already raised, is with us to-night, and we desire to Professor J. G. McKENDRICK, Glasgow University. thank him in this manner for the great service he Professor S. ALEXANDER, Owen's College, Manchester. has done for the memory of Emerson. I have plea- Professor GEORGE SAINTSBURY, Edinburgh University. sure in introducing to you Professor Münsterberg, of Professor GEORGE ADAM SMITH, Glasgow. Harvard University. PATRICK W. CAMPBELL, W. S., Edinburgh. Sir LESLIE STEPHEN. Sir WILLIAM TURNER, Edinburgh University. SPEECH OF HUGO MÜNSTERBERG Professor Marcus Dods, Edinburgh. Professor LATTA, University, Glasgow. MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : - The Professor A. V. DICEY, All Souls, Oxford. overwhelming kindness of your generous words, Professor ALEXANDER LAWSON, University, St. An- Mr. Chairman, adds much to the embarrassment with drews. which I stand before you. I am deeply embarrassed I Professor C. H. HERFORD, Manchester. indeed, - how can I, a foreigner, an outsider, rise at Professor A. S. PRINGLE PATTISON. this occasion to speak to a circle of women and men, : EDMUND GOSSE, LL. D., London. inspired from childhood by the atmosphere of Emer- son's New England? I have been brought up near THE CHAIRMAN - Rudyard Kipling declined his the Baltic Sea, and in my childhood the waves of invitation, but we have his "Recessional" here to- the ocean seldom brought greetings from these New night and we hope to have the pleasure of hearing England shores to the shores of Germany. And yet Mr. Parker sing it. my youth was not untouched by Emerson's genius. I am glad to mention this Emersonian influence Kipling's 'Recessional" was sung by Mr. George abroad, because in the rich chord of the joyful enthu- J. Parker, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. siasm of this day I missed only one overtone: a tone Charles Edward Brown. bringing out the grateful appreciation which Emer- son found in the not-English speaking foreign coun- THE CHAIRMAN : - The gentleman who has per- tries. As far as I remember, I had only three Amer- haps honored the memory of Emerson by the grandest ican books, in German translation, in my little and most lasting memorial, and who proposed the schoolday library. At ten I got a boys' edition of plan for the Emerson Hall of Philosophy at Cam- Cooper's Leatherstocking; at twelve I enjoyed UNIT 1 (1903). SERIES III. PUBLISHED VOLS. 114 THE EMERSON CENTENARY SPEECH OF HUGO MÜNSTERBERG 115 Longfellow's poems, but at fourteen I had Emerson's Essays. And they accompanied me through my stu- man, the Philosophy Department of Harvard has dent days I read and reread them, and he became not to report any new facts to-night. The Emerson thus the star to which I hitched my little wagon story is very simple, very short, and completely known when it was to carry me to the new world from the to you. We saw a year ago that the time had come fatherland. This was not without effect on my own to place an Emerson Hall for Philosophy on the American experiences. Emerson's work had SO often Harvard Yard, and that it was necessary for that represented to me the spirit of the new world which purpose to collect $150,000 before the 25th of May, I entered that my mental eye became so sensitive as 1903 we began thus to collect, and when we counted the contents of our purse, on the 23d of May 1903, to recognize the Emersonian lines and curves and we found there $150,250. That is the whole simple forms everywhere in the background of American life. Most Europeans, and especially Germans, who story indeed, and yet some connotations to it may be in order, and I am most happy to make them come over, see everywhere the features of commer- cialism and practical utilitarianism. I was impressed in this company. First, do not misunderstand the report of our by the idealism of this young, healthful community, treasurer; the sum I mentioned was meant from the and in the first essay which I published on America, in a German paper, only a few months after my first beginning merely as a fund sufficient to secure a visit, I wrote with most sincere conviction "If building,- not at all sufficient to secure the building for which we were hoping from the start. We want you really want to understand the deepest energies of this glorious country, do not consult the editorials a spacious, noble, monumental hall - the architec- tural plans are drawn. To build it as the plans sug- of the yellow press of New York, but read the golden books of the wise man of Concord." gest it we need $100,000 more; and while we But, Mr. Chairman, I feel that I have no right to highly appreciate any small gifts toward this addi- tional sum we are firmly determined not to reject speak here as a German, since you have assured us that the foreign scholars have been invited for to- even the largest contributions. But all this refers to the externals, to the news- night, with the understanding that they are not allowed to come a cover has been laid for me, paper side of our memorial work; let me speak in this narrower circle of some more internal points. nevertheless, I take it that I was expected not to Seen from such an exoteric point of view, it may forget that I am here as the representative of the Harvard Philosophy Department. But, Mr. Chair- look as though we Harvard philosophers had said through all the year : "Happy public, you are fortu- UNIT 1 (1903). SERIES III. PUBLISHED VOLS. 116 THE EMERSON CENTENARY SPEECH OF HUGO MÜNSTERBERG 117 nate in being allowed to build a fine building for our assure you that it is exactly the opposite feeling with splendid philosophy instruction, and now that the which we look into the future, and this conviction checks are written, the public may kindly remove that we must fulfil our duty better, much better, itself and the students may fill their fountain pens than heretofore, is common to all of us in the whole to write down in the new building our glorious effu- large Department of Philosophy. A lucky chance sion of wisdom." Well, over there in Cambridge, brought to me this morning, when I left for Concord, we must impose on the freshmen and sophomores, a letter from our colleague, Professor Royce, who is but here let me say at once, we know exactly that spending his sabbatical year in the country of his the generous contributions of the community were childhood, in California. He finds the fit word bet- not given to us but to Emerson, And if we ever ter than I could hope to do let me read from his forgot it, our benefactors reminded us of it. I asked, letter. I had written to him that the success seems for instance, the help of Andrew Carnegie, and he near, and he replies - gave generously, but when I replied that there would feel very deeply how great are the responsi- Royce be rejoicing in Harvard that at last he had given to bilities which the new gift places upon the shoulders Harvard University, saw in the far background of each teacher of the department which is thus the big Harvard Library building we need so badly,- endowed. I do not know how much I shall be able he left me not the slightest doubt that his pledge to do to live up to these new responsibilities. I only was for the Emerson Memorial, but not for Harvard know that the news of the success of the Emerson as Harvard. Yes. it is thoroughly an Emerson build- Hall endowment fills me with a desire not only to ing, a late expression of Harvard's gratitude for her improve here and there, but quite to make over greatest son. afresh, and to change throughout for the better, my But we know also that the value of this memorial methods of work as a teacher of philosophy and gift lies not in its walls and roof, but in the kind of with a determination to devote myself as never be- work which will develop within those walls. It will fore to the task of offering to philosophy and to be a true Emerson memorial only if the words and Harvard my best services. That the founding of this work in that hall become help and guidance, wisdom new building may mean the beginning of a new life and inspiration for new and new generations of Har- for philosophical study in our country, and the dawn- vard men. There would be no hope of such influence ing of a new day for the interests of higher thought if we instructors really entered into it with an air in our national affairs, is the earnest wish of your of self-satisfaction and self-complacency. Let me absent colleague." III. PUBLISHED VOLS. 118 THE EMERSON CENTENARY SPEECH OF EDWARD WALDO EMERSON 119 This is the feeling of our common department's soul. We shall not enter the new Philosophy Hall SPEECH OF EDWARD WALDO EMERSON with the feeling that we can sit there on our laurels, but with the firm promise that we will live up to the MR. CHAIRMAN, My Honored Friend, - My duties which the single word above its door demands Friends and Neighbors: - The Social Circle, as from us. We all are united by the ideal to make stated in its book of chronicles, was not merely our work in Emerson Hall worthy of the name that founded for the diffusion of useful communica- honors it tions" by the twenty-five members who composed it, Mr. Chairman, I see from your pretty menu-card some of which might be shared by their wives and that Emerson once said, " Harvard University is some not, - but for the promotion of the social affec- thin like a wafer compared with the solid land of tions, that they should not die. I am glad to see our Social Circle in Concord." That was sixty years how liberally the Circle has gone to work to promote ago, and there has not been much change since that them by such a thoroughly social and affectionate time, indeed. But now the change will come, believe and catholic occasion as this. us. Emerson Hall in Harvard University will be Now, it makes me smile a little when, after the built on solid land, too, on the solid land of our best exercises that I have had the privilege of attending will and effort, and we will work that it may prove here and elsewhere, I think of a remark that I have perhaps even not less solid than the Social Circle,- so often heard my father make. My mother was solid land on which to stand to-night gave me the constantly remembering that "Ten years ago to-day greatest possible pleasure. such a thing occurred," and other members of the family would remember other anniversaries. When THE CHAIRMAN:- Dr. Emerson needs no intro- at table such remarks were made, my father would duction from me to you. He will occupy the few often laugh and say, "Oh, it is always a hundred remaining moments before the time to leave for years from something." But he was so good a towns- the train, and the exercises will then close with man and he had such an affectionate regard for his singing the "Battle Hymn" to the tune of "Old neighbors - and he construed that term very largely Hundred." - that if we can conceive of him being present and receiving such a tribute as has been given to him to-day, it is very clear how it would have affected him. Some of you are too young - or too young 1905.] Emerson Memorial Hall. 249 250 Prof. Palmer arranges the poems in a new order, placing his notes on Emerson Memorial Hall. is striking: [December, the page facing the text. For pictorial illustrations he gives portraits, Here, generation after and works of the generation will be views of scenes and buildings connected with Herbert, facsimiles of manu- great scholar inspired and by the life scripts and reproductions of title-pages. The result is as nearly per- of other the university can instruct and inspire, philosopher, through in the a way in which no fecta book which author, editor, critic, and publisher unite to do their best - as we are likely to see. It is the definitive edition of George Emerson, one enters the building, in the hall will be seen the seated Department. As Memorial. It is to be the home of the Philosophical very atmosphere Herbert: a delight for every lover of fine bookmaking and it may simple Doric in bronze, by Frank Duveneck. This hall is of impressive statue of serve as a model of the way in which poets can (and therefore should) room, proportions 350 and detail. The leads directly to and be edited. and rooms seating. for persons. On the first floor are also several a lecture- which will be seminars. A generous staircase leads to the class-rooms the devoted to the sections of second floor, EMERSON MEMORIAL HALL. This floor museum, and also the be sociological has largely library Sociology. philosophical Here library. will class-rooms also a lecture-room seating 150 beside Harvard's newest building, the Emerson Memorial Hall, the latest rooms on and studies. Through special gifts the persons, libraries and various other building to be given to the University, will be finished some time in De- The third this floor floor are to be splendidly furnished and equipped. cember, when it will be occupied by the departments of Philosophy and has been is devoted entirely to Psychology. Here the Psychology. The structure, an illustration of which we publish in this for care psychological given to the planning of the most complete greatest issue, stands adjacent to Sever Hall, facing Robinson Hall, and was de- ment-rooms, in studies research, and in class-rooms. the equipment of laboratories arrangement and experi- signed by Guy Lowell, '92. A difficult problem has been successfully solved in the erection of this It is thus seen that under one roof Harvard has now assembled building. Sever and Robinson Halls differ so radically in architectural accommodations closely bound together, and has provided generous and depart- design, as well as in color and size, that the task of forming an harmonious 1903, said: in a speech at the Emerson Centenary at Concord, Prof. Munsterberg for a great work whose results are immeasurable. splendid group seemed well-nigh impossible when the ground was broken for Em- erson Hall. The building, though one story greater in height, has been know also "We want a spacious, noble, monumental hall. in May, made to balance Robinson Hall in mass and design, and therefore with roof, but in that the value of this memorial gift lies not in its But we Sever the three give to the Yard a group of much interest. will be the kind of work which will develop within those walls and The materials of construction are brick and limestone, used in about become a true Emerson Memorial only if the words and work in walls. It the same proportion as those in Robinson Hall. The most unusual fea- generations of Harvard Men." help and guidance, wisdom and inspiration for new and that new hall ture is the use of large columns of brick, which carry through two stories. These occur in a group of six upon the front, and in a group of two upon ning he of "That the founding of this new building may the which A.letter...from said Prof. Royce was read at the same meeting, in the end elevation, giving a motive for the Yard entrance. They give the desired effect of light and shade without detracting from the quiet effect ing of a new life for philosophical study in our country, mean and the begin- of color due to the predominance of brick. The columns are of Ionic affairs, a is new day for the interests of higher thought in our national dawn- order, and the whole building is Greek in feeling and detail. Over the Prof. the earnest wish of your absent colleague." Yard entrance is the one word " Philosophy and across the frieze over 'Gainst James, in an address at this centenary celebration, also the colonnade, on the front, What is man that Thou art mindful of him." At the present moment, although the newness of the limestone cheered and long as our English language lasts, men's hearts beloved master. As death and all oblivious enmity shall you pace forth, said in the building gives rather sharp contrasts of color, the simplicity and musical their souls strengthened and liberated by the noble will be dignity of the design are such that time will quickly tone the structure, 80 mind of pages three with which you have enriched it." With the and in that its real qualities will give to the Yard an added character that it has Memorial of the professora who will labor together in this words greatly needed. vard and Hall, the reality and worth of the building is realized Emerson for Har- The uses of the Hall will be such that the uniqueness of the Memorial for humanity. William James, Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord : THE PEIRCE GATEWA Page 1 of 8 Home Page Papers by Peirce Peirce-Related Papers To Bottom of Page William James Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord (1903) (spelling and punctuation regularized) The pathos of death is this, that when the days of one's life are ended, those days that were so crowded with business and felt so heavy in their passing, what remains of one in memory should usually be so slight a thing. The phantom of an attitude. the echo of a certain mode of thought, a few pages of print, some invention, or some victory we gained in a brief critical hour, are all that can survive the best of us. It is as if the whole of a man's significance had now shrunk into the phantom of an attitude, into a mere musical note or phrase suggestive of his singularity - happy are those whose singularity gives a note so clear as to be victorious over the inevitable pity of such a diminution and abridgement. An ideal wraith like this, of Emerson's personality, hovers over all Concord today, taking, in the minds of those of you who were his neighbors and intimates a somewhat fuller shape, remaining more abstract in the younger generation, but bringing home to all of us the notion of a spirit indescribably precious. The form that so lately moved upon these streets and country roads, or awaited in these fields and woods the beloved Muse's visits, is now dust; but the soul's note, the spiritual voice, rises strong and clear above the uproar of the times, and seems securely destined to exert an ennobling influence over future generations. What gave a flavor so matchless to Emerson's individuality was, even more than his rich mental gifts, their singularly harmonious combination. Rarely has a man so accurately known the limits of his genius or so unfailingly kept with them. "Stand by your order," he used to say to youthful students; and perhaps the paramount impression one gets of his life is of his loyalty to his own personal type and mission. The type was that of what he liked to call a scholar, the perceiver of pure truth; and the http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/james/1903em.htm 11/17/2003 William James, Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord : THE PEIRCE GATEWA Page 2 of 8 mission was that of the reporter in worthy form of each perception. The day is good, he said, in which we have the most perceptions. There are times when the cawing of a crow, a weed, a snowflake, or a farmer planting in his field become symbols to the intellect of truths equal to those which the most majestic phenomena can open. Let me mind my own charge, then, walk alone, consult the sky, the field and forest, sedulously waiting every morning for the news concerning the structure of the universe which the good Spirit will give me. This was the first half of Emerson, but only half; for genius, as he said, is insatiate for expression, and truth has to be clad in the right verbal garment. The form of the garment was so vital with Emerson that it is impossible to separate it from the matter. They form a chemical combination - thoughts which would be trivially expressed otherwise, are important through the nouns and verbs to which he married them. The style is the man, and if we must define him in one word, we have to call him Artist. He was an artist whose medium was verbal and who wrought in spiritual material. This duty of spiritual seeing and reporting determined the whole tenor of his life. It was to shield this duty from invasion and distraction that he dwelt in the country, that he consistently declined to entangle himself with associations or to encumber himself with functions which, however he might believe in them, he felt were duties for other men and not for him. Even the care of his garden, "with its stoopings and fingers in a few yards of space," he found "narrowing and poisoning," and took to long free walks and saunterings instead, without apology. "Causes" innumerable sought to enlist him as their "worker" - all got his smile and word of svmpathv. but none entrapped him into service. The struggle against slavery itself, deeply as it appealed to him, found him firm: 1. God must govern his own world, and knows his way out of this pit without my desertion of my post, which has none to guard it but me. I have quite other slaves to face than those Negroes, to wit, imprisoned thoughts far back in the brain of man, and which have no watchman or lover or defender but me. This in reply to the possible questions of his own conscience. To hot-blooded moralists with more objective ideas of duty, such http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/james/1903em.htm 11/17/2003 William James, Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord : THE PEIRCE GATEWA Page 3 of 8 fidelity to the limits of his genius must have often made him seem provokingly remote and unavailable; but we, who can see things in moral liberal perspective, must unqualifiably approve the results. The faultless tact with which he kept his safe limits while he so dauntlessly asserted himself within them, is an example fitted to give heart to other theorists and artists the world over. The insight and creed from which Emerson's life followed can be best summed up in his own verses: So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man! Through the individual fact there ever shone for him the effulgence of the Universal Reason. The great Cosmic Intellect terminates and houses itself in mortal men and passing hours. Each of us is an angle of its eternal vision, and the only way to be true to our Maker is to be loyal to ourselves. "O rich and various Man!" he cries, "thou palace of sight and sound, carrying in thy senses the morning and the night and the unfathomable galaxy; in thy brain the geometry of the city of God; in thy heart the power of love and the realms of right and wrong." If the individual opens thus directly into the Absolute, it follows that there is something in each and all of us, even the lowliest, that ought not to consent to borrowed traditions and living at second hand. "If John was perfect, why are you and I alive?" Emerson writes; "As long as any man exists there is some need of him: let him fight for his own." This faith that in a life at first hand there is something sacred is perhaps the most characteristic note in Emerson's writings. The hottest side of him is this non-conformist persuasion, and if his temper could ever verge on common irascibility, it would be by reason of the passionate character of his feelings on this point. The world is still new and untried. In seeing freshly, and not in hearing of what others saw, shall a man find what truth is. "Each one of us can bask in the great morning which rises out of the Eastern Sea, and be himself one of the children of the light." "Trust thyself. every heart vibrates to that iron string. There is a time in each man's education when he must arrive at the conviction that limitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; and know that though the wide universe is full of good. no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which it was http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/james/1903em.htm 11/17/2003 William James, Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord : THE PEIRCE GATEWA Page 4 of 8 given him to till." The matchless eloquence with which Emerson proclaimed the sovereignty of the living individual electrified and emancipated his generation, and this bugle-blast will doubtless be regarded by future critics as the soul of his message. The present man is the aboriginal reality, the Institution is derivative, and the past man is irrelevant and obliterate for present issues. "If anyone would lay an axe to your tree with a text from I John, V, 7, or a sentence from Saint Paul, say to him," Emerson wrote, " My tree is Yggdrasil, the tree of life.' Let him know by your security that your conviction is clear and sufficient, and, if he were Paul himself, that you also are here and with your Creator;" "Cleve ever to God," he insisted "against the name of God;"- and so, in spite of the intensely religious character of his total thought, when he began his career it seemed to many of his brethren in the clerical profession that he was little more than an iconoclast and desecrator. Emerson's belief that the individual must in reason be adequate to the vocation for which the Spirit of the world has called him into being, is the source of those sublime pages, hearteners, and sustainers of our youth, in which he urges his hearers to be incorruptibly true to their own private conscience. Nothing can harm the man who rests in his appointed place and character. Such a man is invulnerable; he balances the universe, balances it as much by keeping small when he is small, by being great and spreading when he is great. "I love and honor Epaminondas," said Emerson, "but I do not wish to be Epaminondas. I hold it more just to love the world of this hour than the world of his hour. Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to the least uneasiness by saying, 'He acted and thou sittest still.' I see action to be good when the need is, and sitting still to be also good. Epaminondas. if he was the man I take him for, would have sat still with joy and peace, if his lot had been mine. Heaven is large and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude." "The fact that I am here certainly shows me that the Soul has need of an organ here, and shall I not assume the post?" The vanity of all superserviceableness and pretence was never more happily set forth than by Emerson in the many passages in which he develops this aspect of his philosophy. Character infallibly proclaims itself. "Hide your thoughts! - hide the sun and moon. They publish themselves to the universe. They will speak through you though you were dumb. They will http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/james/1903em.htm 11/17/2003 William James, Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord THE PEIRCE GATEWA Page 5 of 8 flow out of your actions, your manners and your face. Don't say things: What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. What a man is engraves itself upon him in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing, boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands. His sin bedaubs him, mars all his good impression. Men know not why they do not trust him, but they do not trust him. His vice glasses the eye, casts lines of mean expression in the cheek, pinches the nose, sets the mark of the beast upon the back of the head, and writes, o fool! fool! on the forehead of a king. If you would not be known to do a thing, never do it; a man may play the fool in the drifts of the desert, but every grain of sand shall seem to see - How can a man be concealed? How can he be concealed?" On the other hand, never was a sincere word or a sincere thought utterly lost. "Never a magnanimity fell to the ground but there is some heart to greet and accept it unexpectedly The hero fears not that if he withstood the avowal of a just and brave act, it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows it, - himself - and is pledged by it to sweetness of peace and nobleness of aim, which will prove in the end a better proclamation than the relating of the incident." The same indefeasible right to be exactly what one is, provided one only be authentic, spreads itself, in Emerson's way of thinking, from persons to things and to times and places. No date, no position is insignificant, if the life that fills it out be only genuine: 1. In solitude, in a remote village, the ardent youth loiters and mourns. With inflamed eye, in this sleeping wilderness, he has read the story of the Emperor, Charles the Fifth, until his fancy has brought home to the surrounding woods the faint roar of cannonades in the Milanese, and marches in Germany. He is curious concerning that man's day. What filled it? the crowded orders, the stern decisions, the foreign despatches, the Castellan etiquette? The soul answers - Behold his day here! In the sighing of these woods, in the quiet of these gray fields, in the cool breeze that sings out of these northern mountains; in the workmen, the boys, the maidens, you meet, - in the hopes of the morning, the ennui of noon, and sauntering of the afternoon; in the disquieting comparisons; in the regrets at http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/james/1903em.htm 11/17/2003 William James, Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord THE PEIRCE GATEWA Page 6 of 8 want of vigor; in the great idea, and the puny execution, - behold Charles the Fifth's day; another, yet the same; behold Chatham's, Hampden's, Bayard's, Alfred's, Scipio's, Pericles's day, - day of all that are born of women. The difference of circumstance is merely costume. I am tasting the self-same life, - its sweetness, its greatness, its pain, which I so admire in other men. Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell, - the details of that nature, of that day, called Byron, or Burke; - but ask it of the enveloping Now Be lord of a day, and you can put up your history books. [From "Literary Ethics," 1838.] "The deep today which all men scorn" receives thus from Emerson superb revindication. "Other world! there is no other world." All God's life opens into the individual particular, and here and now, or nowhere, is reality. "The present hour is the decisive hour, and every day is doomsday." Such a conviction that Divinity is everywhere may easily make of one an optimist of the sentimental type that refuses to speak ill of anything. Emerson's drastic perception of differences kept him at the opposite pole from this weakness. After you have seen men a few times, he could say, you find most of them as alike as their barns and pantries, and soon as musty and dreary. Never was such a fastidious lover of significance and distinction, and never an eye so keen for their discovery. His optimism had nothing in common with that indiscriminate hurrahing for the Universe with which Walt Whitman has made us familiar. For Emerson, the individual fact and moment were indeed suffused with absolute radiance, but it was upon a condition that saved the situation - they must be worthy specimens, - sincere, authentic, archetypical; they must have made connection with what he calls the Moral Sentiment, they must in some way act as symbolic mouthpieces of the Universe's meaning. To know just which thing does act in this way, and which thing fails to make the true connection, is the secret (somewhat incommunicable, it must be confessed) of seership, and doubtless we must not expect of the seer too rigorous a consistency. Emerson himself was a real seer. He could perceive the full squalor of the individual fact, but he could also see the transfiguration. He might easily have found himself saying of some present-day agitator against our Philippine conquest what he said of this or that reformer of his own time. He might have http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/james/1903em.htm 11/17/2003 William James, Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord THE PEIRCE GATEWA Page 7 of 8 called him, as a private person, a tedious bore and canter. But he would infallibly have added what he then added: "It is strange and horrible to say this, for I feel that under him and his partiality and exclusiveness is the earth and the sea, and all that in them is, and the axis round which the Universe revolves passes through his body where he stands." Be it how it may, then, this is Emerson's revelation: The point of any pen can be an epitome of reality; the commonest person's act, if genuinely actuated, can lay hold of eternity. This vision is the head-spring of all his outpourings; and it is for this truth, given to no previous literary artist to express in such penetratingly persuasive tones, that prosperity will reckon him a prophet, and perhaps neglecting other pages, piously turn to those that covey this message. His life was one long conversation with the invisible divine, expressing itself through individuals and particulars: "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, so near is God to man!" I spoke of how shrunken the wraith, how thin the echo, of men is after they are departed. Emerson's wraith comes to me now as if it were but the very voice of this victorious argument. His words to this effect are certain to be quoted and extracted more and more as time goes on, and to take their place among the Scriptures of humanity. "Gainst death and all oblivious enmity, shall you pace forth," beloved Master. As long as our English language lasts men's hearts will be cheered and their souls strengthened and liberated by the noble and musical pages with which you have enriched it. END OF: William James, "Address at the Emerson Centenary at Concord (1903)" CONTRIBUTE TO ARISBE Do you think the author has it wrong? If so and you want to contribute a critical comment or commentary, brief or extended, concerning the above paper or its subject-matter, or concerning previous commentary on it, it will be incorporated into this webpage as perspicuously as possible and itself become subject thereby to further critical response, thus contributing to Arisbe as a matrix for dialogue. Your contribution could also be http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/james/1903em.htm 11/17/2003 de complace and authorized WIND aoes not hear the of Houghton, Miffin & Company. EMERSON'S COMPLETE WORKS THE EMERSON CENTENNIAL NEW CENTENARY EDITION. 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The morning lectures CALENDAR BOOK. 32mo, parchment paper, 25 cents. will be given in Concord, and the evening lectures in Boston. BIOGRAPHIES OF EMERSON Two afternoons will be devoted to Memories of Emerson, by A MEMOIR OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. By JAMES ELLIOT CABOT. 2 vols., men and women who were personal friends of the great thinker BROWN Bro, $3.59. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 16mo, $1.25. and there will be throughout the period of the school special EMERSON IN CONCORD. By EDWARD W. EMERSON. Crown 8vo, $1.75. Sunday services, with sermons or addresses by eminent lovers RALPH WALDO EMERSON: HIS LIFE, WRITINGS, AND PHILOSOPHY. By GEORGE WILLIS COOKE. 12mo, $2.00. of Emerson. m sale by all Booksellers. Send, postpaid, on receipt of price by the Publishers. The time for the commemoration has been fixed so as best to accommodate the great number of teachers and students HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. Boston and New York from all parts of the country who will come to Boston early in Association. it is telt that hundreds of these, who will spend July 13. Rev. Charles Gordon Ames, The Sources of Emerson." the summer in New England, will welcome the opportunity of 14. Rev. Charles F. Dole, Emerson the Puritan.' attending this inspiring summer school; and its opening will 15. Joel Benton, Emerson with Nature." 16. Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, "The American Woman's therefore immediately follow the Educational Association's Debt to Emerson." Morning convention. The division of the sessions between Concord 17. Prof. Kuno Francke, Emerson's Debt to Germany and Lectures and Boston will also; it is felt, be pleasing to these visiting Germany's Debt to Emerson." in 20. Edwin D. Mead, Emerson's Message in Education." scholars, while at the same time a convenience to the large 21. Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, "Emerson and Carlyle." local public. concord 22. Dr. Edward W. Emerson, "The Religion of Emerson." The quick and easy railroad and trolley connections will 23. Prof. Charles F. Richardson, "Emerson's Place in American Literature." enable visitors to take lodgings in Lexington, Bedford or Cam- " 24. Percival Chubb, "Emerson's Spiritual Leadership in bridge, as well as in Concord or Boston. The frequent England." trains, early and late, between Concord and Boston will make 27. Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, "Emerson and Oriental headquarters in either place, or in the pleasant places between, Thought." 28. Charles Malloy, "The Sphinx." entirely convenient for those attending the full course. Those 29. Rev. John W. Chadwick, "The Simpler Emerson." desiring lodgings and board in or near Concord may address 30. Moorfield Storey, 'Emerson and the Civil War." the Emerson School Committee, Concord, Mass. 31. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, "A Century from the Birth of Emerson. The lectures in Concord will be given in the Town Hall, where Emerson in his lifetime lectured a hundred times, at ten EVENING LECTURES IN BOSTON. o'clock. The lectures in Boston will be given in Huntington July 13. Pres. Jacob Gould Schurman, "The Philosophy of Hall, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at quarter Emerson." of eight o'clock. The morning lectures will be followed by 14. Rev. Samuel M. Crothers, "The Poetry of Emerson." discussion. 15. Frank B. Sanborn, "Emerson and the Concord School of Philosophy." The price of tickets for the season, covering both the 16. George Willis Cooke, "Emerson and the Transcendental Concord and Boston lectures, will be $5. Tickets will be Movement." sold for the morning and evening courses separately, for $3 as 17. Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, "Emerson and Harvard." and also for single lectures, 35 cents. The tickets are sold in 20. William R. Thayer, "Emerson's Gospel of Individualism." Boston at the Old Corner Bookstore, corner of School and 21. Dr. Francis E. Abbot, "Emerson the Anti-imperialist or Prophet of the Natural Rights of Man." Washington Streets, the Congregational Bookstore, 14 Beacon 22. Rev. R. Heber Newton, Emerson the Man." Street, and the Unitarian Rooms, 25 Beacon Street; and in 23. Henry D. Lloyd, Emerson's Wit and Humor." Concord at H. L. Whitcomb's bookstore and Richardson's 24. William M. Salter, "Emerson's Aim and Method in Social Reform." drugstore. " 27. Rabbi Charles Fleischer, "Emerson, the Seer of Address for any required information the Secretary of Democracy." " the Committee, David Greene Haskins, Jr., 5 Tremont Street, 28. Rev. Benjamin F. Trueblood, "Emerson and the Inner Light." Boston, Mass., of whom tickets may be ordered by mail. " 29. William Lloyd Garrison, "Emerson and the Anti-Slavery Movement." " 30. Prof. A. E. Dolbear, "Emerson's Thought in Relation to Modern Science." 44 31. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, "Emerson's Gospel for his Own Time and for Ours." 36 46 be a pleasure to serve with you in even this infrequent 5 See the accompanying flyer for the kind of activities rather shadowy manner; and I think we shall found our sponsored by this club. count in thus meeting occasionally the earnest persons, 6 See the "Introduction" to my recent edition of Charles ing and old, who find the wisdom and the spirit of Emer- Malloy's A Study of Emerson's Major Poems, Hartford so well adapted to their needs. (Transcendental Books), 1973. I was in Washington in the great snow storm, but found 7 This letter is in the Concord Free Public Library and streets too much for my trying to visit you. I hope you is edited here with the kind permission of its librarian, give us an opportunity to see you here in Concord be- Mrs. Rose Marie Mitten. long. At present Mrs. Sanborn is at 150 W. 59th St. 8 Sanborn's letter dated Concord, Mass., Aug. 6, 1899, York, visiting Mrs. Edw. Hoar; Mr. Channing is well, to Harris at Hurricane, N.Y. Owned by the Concord Free am Public Library. Yours as ever, 9 Boston Evening Transcript, Jan. 31, 1901, p. 10. San- F. B. Sanborn born's letter is dated "Concord, Jan. 28." of W. T. Harris, Washington, D.C. 10 Call number: HUD 255.505 (Box This autobiog- raphy was edited with permission in the ESQ, no. 16 (3rd Quarter 1959), pp. 27-30. Later in the year, Sanborn reported to Harris: "I wrote in the Spring in regard to becoming a Vice President, Mrs. [Julia Ward] Howe and myself, of the new Emer- SANBORN'S FIRST BLAST AGAINST HARVARD Society, which was initiated with success in May last. FOR NEGLECTING EMERSON did not reply; but as 'silence gives consent we put you the list. In 1901, Sanborn sent a promotional letter to Kenneth Walter Cameron editor of the Boston Evening Transcript, setting forth details concerning the Society, which "meets every week F. B. Sanborn's philippic on July 22, 1903, against Thursday afternoons at three o'clock in the room of the Harvard University for its early treatment of R. W. etaphysical Club, at 200 Clarendon street, and either Emerson was appropriate for the series of observances tens to lectures, or more usually, hears Mr. Charles in Boston and Concord honoring the centennial of Emer- alloy, the best interpreter of Emerson's oracular poems, son's birth It had an important precursor, however scourse upon those, or upon some prose chapter of the in a letter Sanborn directed to the "Visiting Committee2 oncord sage. It is a gathering of Emersonians, some of the Philosophic Division of Harvard University," which, in this literature, but mostly familiar disciples, who on the preceding February 7. had sent him a formal invi- eatly enjoy this study of the master, in the form which tation to attend a meeting in the house of Mrs. Bullard at Malloy, an early friend of Emerson, the lecturer, has 3 Commonwealth Avenue on February 14---the agenda to ade popular in New England and New York, at Greenacre include "addresses upon the work and growth of the Philo- the White Mountains, and chiefly in the circle of cities sophical Department and the proposed plans for Emerson id towns around Boston. At present he is carrying on a Hall." I shall allow the document to speak for itself. 3 eekly course of such readings at Malden, which have con- nued all winter, and will run on toward May. Your read- may like to know the terms on which the exercises of Concord, Mass., Feb'y 13, 1902. is society may be heard. Membership, covering all lec- George B. Dorr, Esq. res and readings for a year--some thirty in all--requires Chairman of the Visiting Committe, etc. fee of $4; but single admissions are twenty-five cents for 3, Commonwealth Avenue, Back Bay. lecture, at the hour named above. Discussion follows Dear Sir: accompanies the reading, as at the Concord School of ilosophy, twenty years ago, where Mr. Malloy was an I regret that my engagements are such that I cannot casional speaker 19 In an autobiographical sketch dat- be present at the important meeting at Mrs. Bullard's to April, 1905, now in the Harvard University Archives10 which you invite me tomorrow, where I should learn what inborn wrote to the Class Secretary: "I have been for I am desirous of knowing, the plans for instruction in or three years one of the Greek Committee of Brown the Philosophical Department of Harvard University, with diversity, and was recently chosen President of the Emer- which it is proposed to connect the name of my old friend Society of Boston, which was established three years and master in certain philosophical studies, Mr. Emerson. 20, for the consideration and interpretation of Emerson's I entered the University something more than thirty ritings." years after Waldo Emerson had graduated there, and when he had been teaching, in his profound, if desultory, man- Letter from H. N. MacCracken, Esq., 87 New Hacken- ner, for more than twenty years, in public discourses and ck Road, Poughkeepsie, N.Y 12603, dated March 22, by published writings. Yet in 1852, when I entered, if 968. there was a single professor or tutor who (I will not say) See The Unitarian, X, no. 12, pp. 538-543. taught but who faintly understood, the principles at the See my Response to Transcendental Concord, passim. root of Emerson's philosophy (which I have been wont to See my forthcoming volume, Transcendentalists in Tran- call Spiritual or Vital, to distinguish it from what he used ition: Popularization of Emerson, Thoreau and the Con- to term 'Scotch metaphysics') it was not my good fortune to ord School of Philosophy come in contact with such. A few students in the College, 48 a few more in the Divinity School, were acquainted with 2 It included George Bucknam Dorr, Harvard Class of writings and valued them highly; but so far as the Fac- '74, Chairman, and the following: Pres. Charles William and Government of the University was concerned, with Eliot, Major Henry L. Higginson, Prof. William James, exception of a single professor in the Divinity School Prof. Hugo Münsterberg, Prof. George H. Palmer and the retiring professor of Philosophy, Dr. Walker, I Prof. Josiah Royce. (See accompanying illustration.) line to the opinion that Paley and Hobbes--and certainly 3 Owned by the Concord Free Public Library, which has cke and Sir William Hamilton--filled a larger space in kindly permitted me to edit it here. (I have slightly im- ir substitute for speculative philosophy than Emerson, proved Sanborn's punctuation.) tinus, Aristotle and Plato put together. I will not men- n Kant, Hegel, Fichte and the fixed stars of German losophy, for we were taught by our instructors that THE VIMITING (D)MMITTER OF THE BHILOPSPHICAL DIVINIOX OF y were either useless or pernicious in our speculative HARVARD UNIVERSITY HEQU'ENTH THE HONOR OF YOU'R PREMENCE AT dies. THE HOUMM OF MRM. BULLARD. 3 CY)MMONIKALTH AVENUE. ON FRIDAY It is with peculiar pleasure, therefore, that I hear, AFTERNOON. PRINTARY 14mm, AT HALM PANT FOUR O'CLAN'S. er half a century, that Emerson begins to assume at Har- ADDRESSES UPON THR WORK AND GROWTH OF THM MHILASMPRICAL rd the place that was rightfully due him in 1836, when his IRPANTHRNT AND THE PROPONNIX PLANN FOR KNKWHON HALL WILL MM st book "Nature" came from the press. In speculative MADE NY ought that slender treatise, as afterwards in ethics his PREMIDENT ELIOT. PROF. HTGO MUXNTERHERO. ore extended volumes, placed Emerson so far above every MAJOR HENRY L MIGGINMON. PROF. GHOKUN H. PALMER. nerican philosopher, not excepting Jonathan Edwards and PROF. WILLIAM JAMEN, PROF. JONIAH ROTCH. mjamin Franklin, that it is strange his altitude was not at ast vaguely suspected by his own University. That Emerson felt this want of appreciation is well GROUGE H DONR. CHAIRMAN. own to me, though he perhaps undervalued his own merit FRURUARY True 1908. For a philosopher and teacher of wisdom. It was partly to stify their own appreciation that the managers of the Con- 5rd School of Philosophy, nearly a quarter of a century go, opened their courses of lectures, in which philoso- hers of several sects in philosophy took part, to that dis- C. H. BRAINARD AND THE GROZELIER PORTRAITS nctive form of thought and speculative ethics which Emer- OF EMERSON on represented. He was too far advanced in age (as he ad been when tardily invited to lecture at our University) Kenneth Walter Cameron bipresent his views systematically, but several of his isciples and friends supplied the defect in some degree, The not-80-well-known picture of Emerson facing nd the result of this experimental and almost impromptu this article is from a large lithograph published in 1859 by chool convinced those who took part in it how much to be Charles Henry Brainard of 124 Washington Street, Boston, egretted was the oversight of which Harvard and New Eng- who had apparently written to Emerson in early July 1858, and had been guilty in regard to this inspired and inspiring hopeful of being permitted to reproduce a charcoal upon eacher. which Samuel Rowse had been working. But when Emer- Those who admired Emerson when it was the fashion son had replied on July 19 that 'nothing can be done at 10 ignore or ridicule or censure his original presentation present with Mr Rowse's sketch" because he 'left it im- of fundamental truth must rejoice greatly to see a wiser perfect six weeks ago," intending "after an interval" either spirit prevailing in his University. Much time has been to mend it or make a new one, 2 Brainard turned to Leopold ost; much shallow and even hurtful teaching has been al- Grozelier for a charcoal upon which he was then either at owed to disgust the young with the true sweetness of Phi- work or which he was planning to execute. The result was losophy; but we may now hope that the wider range and op- announced (sometime in 1858) in the following newspaper portunity of the Department in which you have an official notice: "R. W. Emerson. A large lithographic portrait place will in some measure atone for the defects of past of Mr. Emerson, from the matchless crayon of Grozelier, years. will shortly be added to the extensive collection of pictures In these strictures I do not fail to recognize how great- of eminent men already issued by Mr. C. H. Brainard. ly the capacity and spirit of philosophic instruction at Har- The difficulty of getting a good likeness of the Seer of Con- vard has improved since I was its hapless victim in 1853- cord has been proverbial, but Mr. Grozelier achieved a 54, and I know nothing better calculated to continue this complete success in his picture of the Herald of Freedom, improvement than the accomplished purpose which I under- which he will doubtless repeat in the larger portrait." stand you and the gentlemen who are to speak tomorrow The background of this 1859 Grozelier lithograph de- have in view. serves to be mentioned. Four years earlier Brainard had Very respectfully, hit upon the idea of issuing portraits of men prominent in F. B. Sanborn the anti slavery crusade. Announced on Dec. 26, 1855, as "Heralds of Freedom," they included William Lloyd Gar- See Sanborn's Transcendental and Literary New England, rison, Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, Gerrit Smith, ed. K. W. Cameron, Hartford (Transcendental Books), Joshua R. Giddings, Samuel J. May, and, of course, Ralph 1975, pp. 350-352. Waldo Emerson- "drawn in the highest style of the art of Everson Hall Hathi Tust Treasurer's Statement 7902-1903. 16 For a course of six lectures in Philosophy, from James M. Barnard $100 Mary Putnam Jacobi 100 William James 175 A. Marquand 25 John T. Morse, Jr. 150 Edward C. Pickering 50 $600 For the building of Emerson Hall, from Edwin H. Abbot $500 Amount brought forward $58,631 Anon. 2 George B. Dorr 1,000 Anonymous 50,000 Miss Julia M. Dutton 25 Anonymous 1 "E" 50 Francis R. Appleton 25 Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Eliot 200 Chester H. Arnold 5 Emersonians of Englewood, N.J. 10 Frederick F. Ayer 100 'Euphorion" 50 " B" 10 Mrs. Glendower Evans 25 Mrs. C. E. Bacon 10 Mrs. James T. Fields 25 Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Barnard 500 Henry Wilder Foote 50 William S. Bigelow 1,000 Mrs. W. H. Forbes 10,000 Miss Elizabeth Bradford 25 J. Geddes, Jr 2 Lawrence G. Brooks 2 Albert Gehring 200 Francis Bullard 500 Miss Amelia M. Goodwin 50 Stephen Bullard 200 Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Goodwin 100 Mrs. William S. Bullard 300 George A. Gordon 50 J. Eliot Cabot 2,500 Francis C. Gray 100 Mrs. Louis Cabot 500 Ira E. Gray 100 Richard B. Carter 5 George Walton Green 10 John J. Chapman 200 C. E. Guild, Jr. 15 Mr. and Mrs. H. Lincoln Chase 5 Mrs. George S. Hale 13 Stephen Chase 10 Edward Harding 5 J. H. Clark 100 W. T. Harris 100 Class of '67, member of 250 Mrs. Jacob H. Hecht 100 Mrs. Mary N. Colvin and F. H. and C. A. Hedge 50 25 Mrs. Delafield Mrs. Charles R. Hemenway 200 Mrs. A. Coolidge 10 Henry L. Higginson 250 Miss Grace G. Cowing 10 Thomas Wentworth Higginson 5 Joshua Crane 10 Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Hill 100 John Crosby 10 Charles F. Hinkle 10 Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cummings 250 Ethel Whitney Holbrook 25 Charles P. Curtis 500 Henry Holt 100 Mrs. G. S. Curtis 15 H. H. Horne 10 S. Newton Cutler 25 Joseph Howland Hunt 25 R. H. Dana 1,000 "In Memoriam 25 Thomas Dawes 20 Miss Marian C. Jackson 10 Smith o. Dexter 1 William James 5 Miss Louise Diman 5 Miss Elizabeth C. Jenkins 5 Amount carried forward 58,631 Amount carried forward $71,733 Digitized by Google Original from Cont UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 17 Amount brought forward $71,733 Amount brought forward $109,485 Arthur M. Keith 5 J. H. Rhoades, Jr. 10 Harris Kennedy 20 R. C. Robbins 1,000 Miss Hannah Parker Kimball 50 S. W. Rodman 20 Edward B. Lane 5 James H. Ropes 5 William Lawrence 25 William Ladd Ropes 5 Miss Josephine Lazarus 25 Selwyn A. Russell 10 Mrs. Henry Lee 10,000 C. W. S 20 Joseph Lee 10,000 Edward T. Sanford 10 Charles A. Loeser 200 Mrs. F. B. Sawin 1 Mrs. Stephen Loines 25 Miss Annie L. Sears 25 Miss Louisa P. Loring 150 Miss Mary P. Sears 25 " 'Lover of Emerson" 2 Miss Emily Sever 25 Mrs. Edward Lowell 10 Mrs. G. H. Shaw 250 Miss Georgiana Lowell 10 Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw 1,000 Percival Lowell 100 Miss Olive Simes 15 Mrs. Arthur Lyman 10 Mr. and Mrs. William Simes 100 Arthur T. Lyman 5,000 Miss Elizabeth R. Simmons 25 Frank Lyman 50 L. Sprague 5 John P. Lyons 5 Mrs. C. W. Stone 5 George Grant McCurdy 5 Miss Elsa W. Stone 5 McDonald McFayden 5 James J. Storrow 250 VT, Miss Fanny P. Mason 10,000 Miss Anna S. Tapley 50 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Merriman 100 Willis Tew 25 Miss Frances R. Morse 25 Mrs. Bayard Thayer 500 Mrs. Samuel T. Morse 200 James Bradley Thayer 100 Hugo Münsterberg 100 Mrs. James B. Thayer 100 Grenville H. Norcross 250 Washington B. Thomas 1,000 Arthur o. Norton 10 A. A. Vaughan 15 J.M.P. 10 " W' 5 Robert Treat Paine 100 Mrs. Oliver F. Wadsworth 10 Frederic Palmer 5 Samuel G. Ward 1,000 George H. Palmer 100 Henry B. Washburn 2 Mr. & Mrs. Francis G. Peabody 100 George F. Weld 5 Norton Perkins 25 Miss Susan J. Wentworth 100 Mrs. John C. Phillips 100 W. A. White 100 David Pingree 500 George Wigglesworth 100 F. L. Porter 25 Miss Ann Bent Winsor 10 George Putnam 250 Herbert H. Yeames 2 Mrs. George Putnam 100 $115,420 James J. Putnam 25 Milton Reed 25 Interest on deposit 175.75 Amount carried forward $109,485 $115,595.75 From George Foster Peabody, $5,000, " for plantation of shrubs within the fence and about the buildings of the College Yard." This gift was made in connection with the graduation of Mr. Peabody's nephew, Charles Samuel Peabody, of the Class of 1902. Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Creditectural Record your 1927 Guy Lowell Born Aug. 6, 1870-Died February 4, 1927. The profession of Architecture has lost a of C. K. G. Billings on Long Island, as well as distinguished member in the sudden death at the new Piping Rock Country Club, also on Madeira, on February 4, 1927, of Mr. Guy Long Island. He designed city gardens for Lowell. A member of the well-known Boston Andrew Carnegie and the late J. P. Morgan; family, Mr. Lowell was a cousin of President and for Morton F. Plant at 86th St., all in A. Lawrence Lowell, and the late Prof. Percival New York, and an Italian garden for Mr. Lowell, of Harvard University, and a second Plant at New London, Conn. cousin of James Russell Lowell. Mr. Lowell also served as advisory architect He was born in 1870, graduated from Har- on Parks for the Metropolitan District and the vard in 1892, studied at Technology for two Charles River Basin, in Massachusetts, and was years and was Diplomé of the Ecole des Beaux engaged in a similar capacity for a new park Arts, Paris, in 1899. system in Pittsburgh, Pa. Such are a few In his practice he designed and built many among many accomplishments in his chosen successful public and private buildings, including profession, but he was far more than a skilled clubhouses, college structures and residences. architect. He had to his credit a long list of Also he planned a number of gardens and achievements in the creation of buildings known estates, for Landscape Architecture had been to us all-but his life was one of activity and included in his studies in Paris and he success, as well, in other fields. To quote from lectured on this subject at Technology from the Bulletin of the Boston Society of Archi- 1900 to 1913. tects: Besides such well-known buildings as the "At the Lowell Observatory in Arizona he Boston Musuem of Fine Arts, and the Cumber- continued with enthusiasm and understanding land County Court House at Portland, Maine, the research developed by Percival Lowell. he had but recently completed the New York When 'Sonder' boat racing began to County Court House in New York, and a interest Americans, Guy Lowell entered the lists new building for the Art School for the Boston and quickly became one of the leaders, taking Museum was under way at the time of his death. his boat, the 'Cima,' to Kiel for the interna- tional races and bringing home trophies of At Andover, Mass., he built a score or more victory. When war was devastating of the buildings for Phillips Academy at Harvard he designed Emerson 'Hall, a new Italy and the outlook darkest, Guy Lowell, as Lecture Hall residence of the President; a Major in the Red Cross organization, with at Brown University in Providence, R. I., courage and skill led the supply motors to several buildings, including the Carrie Memorial points where they would do the most good, and where American friendship and help spurred Tower, were designed by him; and Simmons on the Italian troops. For this he was honored College at Boston, and the State Normal and decorated by the Italian government. School at Bridgewater, Mass., have several In two beautiful volumes on 'Italian buildings of his design. He was architect of Villas and Farmhouses' he shared with us his the Iowa State Memorial, at Vicksburg, Miss.; many journeys of study. He was one of the Eden Hall at Bar Harbor, Maine; the New first to publish a book on American gardens. Hampshire Histórical Society Building at As a Lecturer upon Landscape Architecture, he Concord, N. H.; the Johnson Memorial Gates, devoted his income from his lectures at Tech- on Westland Avenue; the Edwin U. Curtis nology to a scholarship to the students to whom Memorial on the Charles River Basin, while at he had given inspiration. From Guy Lowell's the time of his death he was preparing some office have come a large number of men who designs for a Memorial Fountain for the State, have established their own offices scattered intended for Copley Square, in Boston. over the country. Lowell never lost his interest Among many private residences and estates in any of these men, and he was always their on which he has been engaged might be men- friend. He led a very full and unselfish life, tioned those of Bayard Thayer at Lancaster, ready to be of public service or to aid those Mass. George O. Knapp at Lake George who needed him. (He was a lover of music and Bryce Allan and Thomas McKee at Beverly, painting and sculpture and literature and the Mass. Robert Gould Shaw, 2nd, at Hamilton, sciences-not in the spirit of a dilettante, but Mass. Francis Skinner at Dedham, Mass. with deep understanding and appreciation. Clarence H. Mackay at Harbor Hill; Paul D. "Guy Lowell loved his profession in all its Cravath at Locust Valley, L. I.; Richard phases, and by his life and his work he digni- fied and broadened it. His devotion to ideals Sears at Isleboro, Maine; Payne Whitney at shortened his years, because to whatever he Manhasset, L. I.: B. F. Goodrich at York undertook, he gave himself with his whole Harbor, Maine; F. L. Ames and Gordon Ab- heart, and nothing else mattered but to do bott at North Easton, Mass. Charles S. Sar- his best. gent, Jr., at. Cedarhurst, L. I.; the estate FRANK CHOUTEAU BROWN. [373] The profess distinguished Madeira, on Lowell. A m family, Mr. I A. Lawrence Lowell, of H cousin of Jan He was bo vard in 1892 (years and wa Arts, Paris, In his pra successful pu clubhouses, Also he pla estates, for included in lectured on 1900 to 191 Besides S Boston Mus land County he had but County Co new buildin Museum wa At Andove of the bu Harvard 1 Lecture H: at Brown several bui Tower, W College a School a buildings the Iowa Eden Ha Hampshir Concord, on Westl Memoria the time designs f intended Among on which tioned t Mass. ; Bryce / Mass. ; The Architectural Record April, 1927 Mass. Clarenc GUY LOWELL Cravath (1870-1927) Sears Manhas Harbor bott at gent, [372] Anneral Hathi Track President and Treasures's Rap at LD 2112 1902-1903 contribute 1902/03 CONTENTS. PAGES PRESIDENT'S REPORT 5-54 REPORTS OF DEPARTMENTS:- THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 55-95 THE COLLEGE 96-110 THE LAWRENCE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL 111-114 ATHLETIC SPORTS 115-117 THE GRADUATE SCHOOL 118-153 THE DIVINITY SCHOOL 154-163 THE LAW SCHOOL 164-168 THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE 169,170 THE MEDICAL SCHOOL 171-192 THE DENTAL SCHOOL 193-196 THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION 197 THE LIBRARY 198-221 THE GRAY HERBARIUM 222-225 THE BOTANIC GARDEN 226-229 THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM 230-232 THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY 233-238 THE JEFFERSON PHYSICAL LABORATORY 239-242 THE DIVISION OF ENGINEERING 243,244 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY 245-248 THE OBSERVATORY 249-258 THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 259-262 THE ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY 263-267 THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY 268-275 THE MINERALOGICAL MUSEUM AND LABORATORIES OF MINERALOGY AND PETROGRAPHY 276,277 THE PEABODY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY 278-287 THE SEMITIC MUSEUM 288-291 THE FOGG ART MUSEUM 292-296 THE GERMANIC MUSEUM 297-300 RADCLIFFE COLLEGE 301-304 APPENDIX 305-332 INDEX 333-338 TREASURER'S STATEMENT 1-107 Digitized by Gonz84174 Original from UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COURSES OF INSTRUCTION IN 1902-03. 69 20. THE SEMINARY IN ECONOMICS. Competent students were guided in investigation, undertaken independently or in connection with courses primarily for graduates, and the results were presented for discussion. 7 Gr., 4 Se. Total 11. History of Religions. 2. Professor G. F. MOORE. - History of Religions in Outline. First half- year: The Religions of China and Japan, Egypt, Babylonia and Assyria, and the Western Semites (including Judaism and Mohammedanism). Second half-year : The Religions of India, Persia, the Greeks, Romans, Germans, and Celts; Christianity. 2 Gr., 16 Se., 11 Ju., 10 So., 3 Fr., 1 Sp., 1 Sc., 13 Di. Total 57. Philosophy. Primarily for Undergraduates: 1a. Professors ROYCE and MUNSTERBERG. - General Introduction to Phil- osophy. Logic. Psychology. 1 Gr., 5 Se., 85 Ju., 96 So., 37 Fr., 13 Sp., 14 Sc. Total 251. 1b. Asst. Professor SANTAYANA and Dr. PERRY.-Outlines of the History of Philosophy, Ancient and Modern. 1 Gr., 1 Se., 45 Ju., 47 So., 7 Fr., 8 Sp., 8 Sc., 1 Med., 1 Bu. Total 119. For Undergraduates and Graduates : - 2 1hf. Dr. PERRY. - Advanced Psychology. 6 Gr., 4 Se., 1 Ju., 1 So., 2 Sp., 1 Sc. Total 15. 14 1hf. Dr. HOLT. - Experimental Psychology (elementary laboratory course). 4 Gr., 3 Se., 1 Ju., 1 Sp., 1 Sc. Total 10. 14a 2hf. Dr. YERKES. - Comparative Psychology. The Mental Life of Animals. 5 Gr., 9 Se., 3 Ju., 5 So., 1 Fr., 1 Sp., 1 Sc. Total 25. 5. Professor PEABODY, assisted by Mr. IRELAND. - The Ethics of the Social Questions. The problems of Poor-Relief, the Family, Temperance, and various phases of the Labor Question, in the light of ethical theory. 5 Gr., 60 Se., 37 Ju., 15 So., 5 Sp., 4 Sc., 8 Di. Total 134. 10a 1hf. Asst. Professor SANTAYANA. - Philosophy of History. Ideals of Society, Science, and Religion. 5 Gr., 28 Se., 15 Ju., 3 So., 1 Fr., 5 Sp., 1 Di. Total 58. 10 2hf. Asst. Professor SANTAYANA. - Aesthetics. The Philosophy of Art, with a survey of aesthetic theories. 5 Gr., 26 Se., 24 Ju., 12 So., 2 Fr., 4 Sp., 2 Sc., 2 Di. Total 77. 9 1hf. Professor ROYCE. - Metaphysics. The Fundamental Problems of Theo- retical Philosophy. Realism and Idealism Freedom, Teleology, and Theism. 13 Gr., 10 Se., 1 Ju., 5 Di. Total 29. 3. Professor JAMES and Dr. MILLER. - The Philosophy of Nature, with especial reference to Man's place in Nature. The Fundamental Concep- tions of Science; the relation of Mind and Body; Evolution. 13 Gr., 24 Se., 12 Ju., 3 So., 3 Sp., 2 Di. Total 57. Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 70 THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 12. Asst. Professor SANTAYANA. - Greek Philosophy, with especial reference to Plato. 7 Gr., 10 Se., 4 So., 2 Sp., 2 Di. Total 25. 11a 1hf. Dr. PERRY. - Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibnitz. 2 Gr., 6 Se., 2 Sp. Total 10. 11b shf. Dr. PERRY. - The History of English Philosophy from Locke to Hume. 3 Gr., 7 Se., 4 Ju., 3 So., 1 Fr., 4 Sp. Total 22. 7 2hf. Professor PALMER. - History of English Ethics. 6 Gr., 11 Se., 2 Ju., 2 So., 3 Sp., 1 Di. Total 25. 16. Dr. MILLER. - Ethical Ideals of the Nineteenth Century. 2 Gr., 4 Se., 5 Ju., 4 Sp., 1 Di. Total 16. 17. Professor E. C. MOORE. - History of Christian Thought since Kant. 1 Gr., 1 Sp., 9 Di. Total 11. SEMINARY COURSES. Primarily for Graduates : - 120a. Professor MUNSTERBERG, Dr. HOLT, and Dr. YERKES. - Psychological Laboratory. Experimental investigations. 15 Gr., 2 Se. Total 17. 20b. Professor MUNSTERBERG. - Psychological Seminary. The Psychology of Aesthetical, Ethical and Logical Processes. 17 Gr. Total 17. 120c. Professor ROYCE and Dr. R. C. CABOT. - Metaphysical Seminary. The Problems of Logic. Studies of various fundamental conceptions of Phil- osophy and of Science. 9 Gr., 3 R. Total 12. 120d 2hf. Professor PALMER. - Ethical Seminary. Systematization of Ethics. 6 Gr., 1 Se., 1 Sp., 1 Di. Total 9. 120g. Dr. MILLER. - Seminary in the History of Modern Philosophy. Modern Pantheism, with especial reference to Spinoza and his influence. 4 Gr., 1 Se., 1 Sp., 1 Di. Total 7. Education: For Undergraduates and Graduates : - 1. Mr. A. O. NORTON. - The History of Educational Theories and Practices. 7 Gr., 4 Se., 11 Ju., 5 So., 3 Sp., 7 Sc. Total 37. 2a 1hf. Professor HANUS. - Introduction to the Study of Education. Discussion of Educational Principles. 11 Gr., 17 Se., 8 Ju., 9 So., 2 Sp., 6 Sc. Total 53. 2b shf. Professor HANUS. - The Development of Schools and School Systems in America, more particularly in Massachusetts. Contemporary Tendencies and Problems. 1 Gr., 5 Se., 2 Ju., 1 Sc. Total 9. 5 1hf. Mr. A. o. NORTON. - The Education of the Individual. Historical and critical study of modern views. 5 Se., 1 Ju., 1 So., 10 Sc. Total 17. Primarily for Graduates : - 13. Professor HANUS, assisted by Mr. A. O. NORTON. - Organization and Management of Public Schools and Academies. Supervision, Courses of Study, and Instruction. 10 Gr., 10 Se., 1 Sp., 12 Sc., 1 Law, 9 R. Total 43. Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS. 247 measurement, examining to thousandths of a second the differences of reaction when the preparatory attention is divided between sight, sound, touch, pain, and so on. C. H. Johnston worked on time- perception, examining how far the subjective time-order of impres- sions corresponds to the objective succession of phenomena, applying a kinematoscopic method to find out whether psychical suggestion, attention, and habit can reverse the real order of quickly succeeding stimulations. J. L. Meriam was concerned with the fusion of touch sensations, examining the illusions which result from a multiple con- tact. The chief effort was to develop for the field of touch the psychological category of fusion, which so far had been applied only to sound and light. H. A. Miller constructed and tested a large number of devices for the study of individual psychical differences with regard to perception, memory, imagination, attention, feeling and volition,-devices intended especially for the rapid examination of school children. It was his chief aim to study the differences of race in the school population. C. M. Olmsted was engaged in a problem from the field of space-perception. It was a question of the relation between the position of the eyes and the relative size of the two retinal images, a question which leads immediately to the wider one of how far our space-perception is a peripheral or a central process. D. C. Rogers studied the motor factors in the localization of sound and their connection with the localization in the visual field, which was distorted by the use of prisms and other means. He turned later to the interrelations between the localization of sound and bodily movements. J. E. Rouse continued his obser- vations on the emotional effects of stimulations in birds. M. A. Shaw worked on analogies between optical and tactual illusions, trying to reproduce on the surface of the skin the conditions of the well-known optical illusions of distance and direction, and thus to examine the unity of our space-perceptions. Dr. Yerkes, finally, continued his investigations on the reaction-times of the frog, giving special emphasis to the problem of inhibition by simultaneous stimulations. But at the same time he worked on the space-perception of turtles, and on the sense-reactions and behavior of several other animals. It is perhaps not superfluous to add what I said here a few years ago, that none of the animal experiments has the slightest relation to vivisection, and that no animal is brought to conditions which would not appear suitable for a student who plays the part of the subject in an investigation. The only hindrance to our work has been the lack of room, and we are thus especially thankful that the last year saw, on the hun- by Google Original from Digitized UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 248 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY. dredth anniversary of Emerson's birthday, the completion of the collection of the $150,000 which the Corporation had determined as the minimum requirement for the building of Emerson Hall. We are thus sure to have in time a hall devoted to philosophy and psychol- ogy, a hall of which one floor will be given over to the Psychological Laboratory. But there can be no doubt that this minimum sum is insufficient for the erection of the building which the architect has planned on the basis of the moderate wishes of the department. If no further funds can be added, the plans will have to be curtailed essentially, and every sub-division, the Psychological department not the least, would feel a heavy disappointment. If the plans of the laboratory have to be reduced, the fear is justified that the improvement as to the local conditions will be only a temporary one. With a slight expansion of the work, which we hope for in several directions, the old lack of room would again interfere with our pro- gress. We confidently hope, therefore, that before the building on Quincy street, opposite Robinson Hall and next to Sever Hall, is started next spring, at least $50,000 more will come to us from sources which appreciate the name of Emerson. HUGO MUNSTERBERG, Professor of Psychology. Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Treasurer's Statement 1902-1903 16 For a course of six lectures in Philosophy, from James M. Barnard $100 Mary Putnam Jacobi 100 William James 175 A. Marquand 25 John T. Morse, Jr. 150 Edward C. Pickering 50 $600 For the building of Emerson Hall, from Edwin H. Abbot $500 Amount brought forward $58,631 Anon. 2 George B. Dorr 1,000 Anonymous 50,000 Miss Julia M. Dutton 25 Anonymous 1 "E" 50 Francis R. Appleton 25 Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Eliot 200 Chester H. Arnold 5 Emersonians of Englewood, N.J. 10 Frederick F. Ayer 100 "Euphorion" 50 " B" 10 Mrs. Glendower Evans 25 Mrs. C. E. Bacon 10 Mrs. James T. Fields 25 Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Barnard 500 Henry Wilder Foote 50 William S. Bigelow 1,000 Mrs. W. H. Forbes 10,000 Miss Elizabeth Bradford 25 J. Geddes, Jr 2 Lawrence G. Brooks 2 Albert Gehring 200 Francis Bullard 500 Miss Amelia M. Goodwin 50 Stephen Bullard 200 Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Goodwin 100 Mrs. William S. Bullard 300 George A. Gordon 50 J. Eliot Cabot 2,500 Francis C. Gray 100 Mrs. Louis Cabot 500 Ira E. Gray 100 Richard B. Carter 5 George Walton Green 10 John J. Chapman 200 C.E. Guild, Jr. 15 Mr. and Mrs. H. Lincoln Chase 5 Mrs. George S. Hale 13 Stephen Chase 10 Edward Harding 5 J. H. Clark 100 W. T. Harris 100 Class of '67, member of 250 Mrs. Jacob H. Hecht 100 Mrs. Mary N. Colvin and F. H. and C. A. Hedge 50 25 Mrs. Delafield Mrs. Charles R. Hemenway 200 Mrs. A. Coolidge 10 Henry L. Higginson 250 Miss Grace G. Cowing 10 Thomas Wentworth Higginson 5 Joshua Crane 10 Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Hill 100 John Crosby 10 Charles F. Hinkle 10 Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cummings 250 Ethel Whitney Holbrook 25 Charles P. Curtis 500 Henry Holt 100 Mrs. G. S. Curtis 15 H. H. Horne 10 S. Newton Cutler 25 Joseph Howland Hunt 25 R. H. Dana 1,000 "In Memoriam' " 25 Thomas Dawes 20 Miss Marian C. Jackson 10 Smith O. Dexter 1 William James 5 Miss Louise Diman 5 Miss Elizabeth C. Jenkins 5 Amount carried forward 58,631 Amount carried forward $71,733 Digitized by Google Original from Cant. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 17 Amount brought forward $71,733 Amount brought forward $109,485 Arthur M. Keith 5 J. H. Rhoades, Jr. 10 Harris Kennedy 20 R. C. Robbins 1,000 Miss Hannah Parker Kimball 50 S. W. Rodman 20 Edward B. Lane 5 James H. Ropes 5 William Lawrence 25 William Ladd Ropes 5 Miss Josephine Lazarus 25 Selwyn A. Russell 10 Mrs. Henry Lee 10,000 C. W. S 20 Joseph Lee 10,000 Edward T. Sanford 10 Charles A. Loeser 200 Mrs. F. B. Sawin 1 Mrs. Stephen Loines 25 Miss Annie L. Sears 25 Miss Louisa P. Loring 150 Miss Mary P. Sears 25 "Lover of Emerson" 2 Miss Emily Sever 25 Mrs. Edward Lowell 10 Mrs. G. H. Shaw 250 Miss Georgiana Lowell 10 Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw 1,000 Percival Lowell 100 Miss Olive Simes 15 Mrs. Arthur Lyman 10 Mr. and Mrs. William Simes 100 Arthur T. Lyman 5,000 Miss Elizabeth R. Simmons 25 Frank Lyman 50 L. Sprague 5 John P. Lyons 5 Mrs. C. W. Stone 5 George Grant McCurdy 5 Miss Elsa W. Stone 5 McDonald McFayden 5 James J. Storrow 250 Miss Fanny P. Mason 10,000 Miss Anna S. Tapley 50 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Merriman 100 Willis Tew 25 Miss Frances R. Morse 25 Mrs. Bayard Thayer 500 Mrs. Samuel T. Morse 200 James Bradley Thayer 100 Hugo Münsterberg 100 Mrs. James B. Thayer 100 Grenville H. Norcross 250 Washington B. Thomas 1,000 Arthur O. Norton 10 A. A. Vaughan 15 J. M. P. 10 "W" 5 Robert Treat Paine 100 Mrs. Oliver F. Wadsworth 10 Frederic Palmer 5 Samuel G. Ward 1,000 George H. Palmer 100 Henry B. Washburn 2 Mr. & Mrs. Francis G. Peabody 100 George F. Weld 5 Norton Perkins 25 Miss Susan J. Wentworth 100 Mrs. John C. Phillips 100 W. A. White 100 David Pingree 500 George Wigglesworth 100 F. L. Porter 25 Miss Ann Bent Winsor 10 George Putnam 250 Herbert H. Yeames 2 Mrs. George Putnam 100 $115,420 James J. Putnam 25 Milton Reed 25 Interest on deposit 175.75 Amount carried forward $109,485 $115,595.75 From George Foster Peabody, $5,000, for plantation of shrubs within the fence and about the buildings of the College Yard." This gift was made in connection with the graduation of Mr. Peabody's nephew, Charles Samuel Peabody, of the Class of 1902. Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CEPL Notes. 3/29/07 to Care 1 Codyle Emerson 2 vols. Boston: JR Osgood, e1883. S C ward, mosted hospitality, ii 52 .232, 274,304 10.51-2. 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Ronald Polito. 1993. of ante to Triang College tosh what is state of ten Cameron's memorabilis scholaf Real tath X Harvard Magpyn Sept/och 2006 Pp42f "Education in this Minuteman Library Network /Concord Page 1 of 2 minuteman Concord Free Public Library LIBRARY NETWOR K Top Requests List Community Info Databases Kids Catalog Virtual Catalog My Account Help 300 poorm 100 000 103 000320 New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR bosco Concord Search Record 1 of 10 Record: Prev Next Title Emerson bicentennial essays / edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson. Publication info. Boston : Massachusetts Historical Society ; Charlottesville : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2006. Location Call No. Status CONCORD AUTHORS CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, R. W., subject Description XX, 473 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Series Massachusetts Historical Society studies in American history and culture ; 10 Massachusetts Historical Society studies in American history and culture ; no. 10. Contents Holmes, Cabot, and Edward Emerson and the challenges of writing Emerson's biography in the 1880s / Robert D. Habich -- Saving Emerson for posterity / Lawrence Buell -- Emerson and his audiences: the New England lectures, 1843-1844 / Nancy Craig Simmons -- Chladni patterns, Lyceum halls, and skillful experimenters: Emerson's new metaphysics for the listening reader / Sarah Ann Wider -- The new movement's tide: Emerson and women's rights / Phyllis Cole -- Emerson, Garrison, and the anti-slavery society / T. Gregory Garvey -- The legacy of reform: Emersonian idealism, Moorfield Storey, and the civil rights movement Len Gougeon -- Poverty and power: revisiting Emerson's poetics / Joseph M. Thomas -Re)visiting "The Adirondacs": Emerson's confrontation with wild nature / Robert E. Burkholder -- Emerson, Columbus, and the geography of self-reliance: the example of the Sermons / Susan L. Roberson -- Emerson and gnosticism / Albert J. von Frank -- Emerson on language as action / Gustaaf Van Cromphout -- "If body can sing": Emerson and Victorian science / Laura Dassow Walls "The power of recurring to the sublime at pleasure": Emerson and http://library.minlib.net/search/abosco/abosco/1%2C6%2C17%2CB/frameset&FF=abosc 10/19/2006 Minuteman Library Network /Concord Page 2 of 2 feeling / Wesley T. Mott -- Experience, instinct, and Emerson's philosophical reorientation / David M. Robinson -- Later Emerson: "Intellect" and The conduct of life / Robert N. Hudspeth -- History and form in Emerson's "Fate" / Barbara Packer. Note Papers from the Emerson Bicentennial Conference, held April 25-26, 2003 at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses. Added author Bosco, Ronald A. Myerson, Joel. ISBN 093490989X Standard no. 9780934909891 Record 1 of 10 Record: Prev Next 000 New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) i Individuals. Communities. Information. The World. We bring it all together. http://library.minlib.net/search/abosco/abosco/1%2C6%2C17%2CB/frameset&FF=abosc...10/19/2006 "The Infinitude of the Private Man" Page 1 of 6 Harvard University Harvard@Home Post.Harvard HARVARD Now you can shop at the Coop CC from the comfort of your Harvard chair HARV MAGAZINE Home Class Notes Classifieds Back Issues Contact Harvard Magazine Advertise Subscribe RVARD May-June 2003 Search Features More features Next. Search "The Infinitude of the Private Man" A bicentennial appreciation of Ralph Waldo Article To Emerson E-mail this by Lawrence Buell In This Issue Download F May-June 2003 Contents Until age 30, he did nothing to distinguish himself from respectable mediocrity. He graduated in the exact middle of the 59-member Harvard class of 1821, his greatest distinction the E-mail Updates dubious honor of being chosen class poet after six others who had Join our e-mail list been asked "positively refused." Yet he went on to become one of to receive Editor's Highlights! the great literary essayists of all time, and one of the most influential figures in the history of American thought. This was Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), whose bicentennial will be celebrated this year in a series of gatherings from Massachusetts to China. The Boston into which Emerson was born was a town of fewer than 25,000 people, proud of its revolutionary heritage but a cultural backwater compared to London and Paris. It was New England's metropolis, then as now; but New Englanders feared (and with reason) they were destined to become a smaller and smaller part of the United States. Yet within a mere half-century, New http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/050330.html 4/5/2005 "The Infinitude of the Private Man" Page 2 of 6 England - and the Boston area Emerson as a young man.. in particular - had become a Photographs courtesy of Harvard center for literature, for avant- University Archives garde American thought in Calligraphy and styling of photographs by Bartek Malysa religion, philosophy, and education, and for a host of other reform movements from temperance to abolition to feminism. The so-called Transcendentalist movement, for which Emerson was the key inspirational figure, was one of the primary reasons why. As a child of Romanticism, Emerson was attracted by the romantic idealization of childhood. But he never idealized his own. He consistently referred to his father's generation slightingly, as "that early ignorant and transitional Month-of- March, in our New England Culture." When their father died young, Emerson and his brothers grew up in genteel poverty - pinched, driven, and sickness-prone. Small wonder that his first course of action as an adult was prudently to follow the beaten path to ministry that his father and grandfathers had trod ever since the seventeenth century. But the early death of his beloved first wife, Ellen (Tucker) Emerson, began a chain reaction that shook him out of that conventional niche and into a career as freelance writer and public lecturer. Energon forseey the United States bringing materity a renewed respect for the individual, and a new attentiveness the worth of ordinary or common life. Loss plunged Emerson into a deep loneliness that unexpectedly opened up the discovery of an inner power he could only think of as a god within. "I have only one doctrine," he wrote years later, "the infinitude of the private man." He did not exaggerate by much. Self-Reliance, as he preferred to call it, did indeed become the cornerstone of his mature thought, and of Transcendentalism. Meanwhile, his modest inheritance from Ellen's estate enabled him to resettle in precarious security in his ancestral town of Concord, remarry, and try his wings in a venue that proved a much better match for his talents. The American Lyceum movement, just then taking shape, was a loosely-knit assemblage of individual town- and city-based forums http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/050330.html 4/5/2005 he Infinitude of the Private Man" Page 3 of 6 for lecturing, debating, and other entertainments of a more or less instructive character: a premodern equivalent to adult education and educational TV. Thanks in no small part to the already- embedded Yankee traditions of village organization and the self- help ethic, lyceums proliferated quickly all across the northern states, following the path of the New England diaspora westward to and across the Mississippi. Almost every year from the mid 1830s to the late 1860s, Emerson worked up a "course" of six to a dozen lectures, typically starting in or near Boston and fanning out in widening circles as the network grew, contracting at each place for the exact number of engagements. These lectures he quarried and synthesized from the voluminous journal he kept lifelong ("my savings bank," he called it) and reworked later into books of essays. The lyceum was an ideal platform for a person of ministerial background (the largest single occupational group of speakers) who had justified that choice of vocation to himself on the grounds of his love of writing and oratory. But the topics were not supposed to be specialized or sharply partisan or doctrinal. Cultural enlightenment and intellectual stimulation were the primary goals. The standby lyceum 13. talks favored by the famous abolitionists Wendell Phillips and Frederick Douglass, Emerson in middle age. At right: A caricature for instance, were tp://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/050330.html 4/5/2005 "The Infinitude of the Private Man" Page 5 of 6 "The American Scholar" voiced its audience's inner anxieties and convictions. The core vision of Emerson's 1838 address to the graduating class and faculty of Harvard Divinity School was quite similar, but its far more confrontational tone provoked a firestorm. That Emerson made religious reform his theme and proceeded to target the timidity and conformism of his own sect, and in its inner sanctum to boot, was especially galling. The Divinity School Address was a ringing assertion of the claims of individual conscience and spiritual experience over against Unitarian teachings about the authority of Jesus. It established Emerson's reputation for intellectual radicalism and made him persona non grata at Harvard for more than a decade. Emerson as a national icon. At left: Emerson's home in Concord, Massachusetts. Photographs courtesy of Harvard University Archives Calligraphy and styling of photographs by Bartek Malysa In time, alma mater re-embraced the prodigal son, appointed him to its Board of Overseers, made him a distinguished visiting professor, and named its philosophy building after him. Why? Fame certainly helped, as Emerson's lectures and books increasingly made him a household word throughout the northern United States and he came to be regarded as the chief spokesman http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/050330.htm 4/5/2005 "The "Infinitude of the Private Man" Page 6 of 6 for progressive American ideas in Britain and parts of Europe. So too, at least in the long run, did his increasing engagement with secular issues, particularly the antislavery movement. Perennially suspicious of team efforts of any sort, Emerson was slower to join it than many in his own circle, including even his own wife, Lydia (Jackson) Emerson. But he was well in advance of mainstream northern consensus. In the decade before the Civil War he became increasingly an outspoken public advocate for abolition. After the war, he was increasingly looked upon as the articulator of the Union's highest ideals. "I never dared be radical when young/For fear it would make me conservative when old" - SO goes a mini-poem by Robert Frost, inspired by a passage in the greatest of all Emerson's essays, "Experience." In his own lifetime Emerson found himself typed in turn as a dangerous radical and as a national icon. Which image is truer? This is a question still being debated two centuries after his birth. It's a sign that Emerson will remain alive for a long time to come. Lawrence Buell is Powell A. Cabot professor of American literature and chair of the department of English and American literature and language. His books include Literary Transcendentalism; New England Literary Culture; and The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. His new book, Emerson, will be published by Harvard University Press this May. More features Next. May-June 2003: Volume 105, Number 5, Page 25 Copyright ©1996-2005 Harvard Magazine, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Home Class Notes Classifieds Back Issues Contact Us Advertise Subscribe Donate Search Report an Error Contact the Webmaster Staff Page http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/050330.html 4/5/2005 Program for the graduation ceremonies at the Ripley Female College, Poultney, Vermont, where Emerson lectured on "Resources" on 26 June 1865. Personal collection of Joel Myerson. Report on the Permanent Memorial. Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1866. D 62. Head title. This was one of the many fund-raising projects for Harvard on which Emerson worked. 291 DOLLS 41 CTS. Royalty check from Boston Augt 19th 1867 Ticknor and Fields of 13 THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON. M August 1867, endorsed. Pay to the Order of. Ru Emersime 8 May-Day and Other Pieces. Unas Hundred Ninety One 41 Dollars YOU Boston: Ticknor and No. Fields, 1867. A 28.1.a. Juhnor Holds, 2,000 copies. The Royalty check, 1867 Myerson Collection contains both binding variants. On display is Concord 25 pily- one of 100 copies specially bound, this one inscribed by Emerson to Grindall Reynolds, his my dear fields, minister in Concord. Also on display is a copy specially bound in leather by the publisher for for "Domestic presentation-in this case, by Emerson's Life", I no not he wife Lidian. any frave offection. May-Day and Other Pieces. London: George though I really mean Routledge and Sons, 1867. A 28.2. The tout it in that Myerson Collection contains four (A, B, D, E) of busy miscakeness which of the six binding variants. Letter to James T. Fields of 25 is it you al that Letter to James T. Fields, July 1867 about his troubles in writing But I 1867 completing Society and Solitude. shall Unpublished. Personal not Maturday at collection of Joel Myerson. the Club AUTUMNAL YEARS Emerson's health began to fail as his mental faculties gradually diminished and a type of aphasia, in which he could not remember the names of people and common objects, affected him. The publication of Society and Solitude (1870) represented the last book for which he was solely responsible. A twilight, reflective volume, its essays include "Society and Solitude," "Civilization," "Art," "Eloquence," "Domestic Life," "Farming," "Works and Days," "Books," "Clubs," "Courage," "Success," and, appropri- ately, "Old Age." A strenuous course of lectures at Harvard, "Natural History of Intellect," in 1870-1871 exhausted him physically and intellectually. To recuperate, in the spring of 1871 he visited the West Coast, where he met the naturalist John Muir. 16 After a fire partially destroyed the Emerson house in 1872, further accelerating Emerson's mental decline, he and his daughter Ellen visited Europe and Egypt while the house was being rebuilt (mainly through monies contributed by Emerson's friends), but he was never the same after returning to Concord. His daughters Ellen and Edith Emerson Forbes helped Emerson complete a poetry anthology he had been working.on for years, Parnassus (1875). James Elliot Cabot, a longtime family friend, was recruited to help put Emerson's other literary manuscripts in order. With the assis- tance of Ellen Emerson, Cabot arranged a final volume of essays, Letters and Social Aims (1876); some of the essays were reprints ("The Comic," "Quotation and Originality," and "Persian Poetry"), and others were creatively drawn from Emerson's manuscripts ("Poetry and Imagination," "Social Aims," "Eloquence," "Resources," "Progress of Culture," "Inspiration," "Greatness," and "Immortality"). Also in 1876, the publisher James R. Osgood initiated the first real collected edition of Emerson's writings, the "Little Classic Edition." Cabot and Ellen Emerson also put together other former lectures for periodical or separate publication, such as Fortune of the Republic (1878) and "The Preacher" (1880). Emerson died quietly in Concord on 27 April 1882 and was buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, close to the graves of the Alcotts, Hawthornes, and Thoreaus. Society and Solitude. Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870. A 31.1.a. 1,500 copies printed. Society and Solitude. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1870. A 31.2.a. The Myerson Collection contains all three binding variants. On display are copies bound in cloth and paper-covered glazed boards, the latter aimed at a more popular market. Letter to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn of 12 September 1871 about Emerson's work on Parnassus. Unpublished. Personal collection of Joel Myerson. Remarks on the Character of George L. Stearns. [N.p.: n.p., 1872]. Head title. A 32.1. This memorializes a friend of Emerson's who was active in the abolitionist movement. The Myerson Collection also contains a letter of condolence from Bronson Alcott to Stearns' widow. 17