The Harvard Monthly
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217894012
Paperback|9780217894012
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and brighter, so that even Mr. Henry James is driven to account for it, though he has no sympathy for Emerson. And Mr. James's explanation that Emerson is living in spite of his style, and on the strength of his message alone, is incomprehensible, since others of Emerson's day, who had the same fundamental conceptions of life as he, and who wrote of them as earnestly and in a style more normal, more like what Mr. James calls style, are day by day growing more obscure while Emerson grows brighter. If it is the message alone that makes Emerson live, why do not the others live also ? George C. Hirst. iritoral. WHEN Mr. Frye made his proposal that nearly 1500 Cuban teachers should be brought to Cambridge for a regular course of instruction, many eyes were opened in surprise and doubt. Few foresaw that the plan would be carried out with such intelligence and perfection. Indeed to the onlooker it has been more like a delightful and systematized Rollo excursion than an undertaking in many ways hazardous and difficult, kept going by the unceasing efforts of Mr. Frye and his assistants. For over six weeks no small number of unselfish men and women, young and old, have worked devotedly to instruct, interest, and entertain the Cubans, even to giving them substantial help in a religious way. Such an event must have considerable significance to these people from the land of suffering, poverty, and stagnation, who have been sent back to their homes filled with life in body and mind. It is also not without meaning to us, who see the President and University working thus disinterestedly hand in hand with the government. Now that a sudden turn places the American in direct contact with the Cuban, it is disagreeable to think of interference and inevitable friction; yet any attempts to...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217894012 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217894011 |
| Weight | 1.14 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.79 In |
| List Price | $23.93 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 352 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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