The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-19

resentative to carry on and wind up the
business.
During the period Of this work the de-
termination TO acquire greater learning
took possession Of him. and he decided,
against his fathers view, to 80 10 COLI
lege; ana he prepared himself TO enter
while serving I'm the store, reading at night
and at all odd moments which he could
find. When he entered Harvard College
I'm 1892 without q condition, he could rely
upon no financial assistance from his
family, and pushed on only by teaching
school at Scituate three months during a
college vacation and by borrowing from
the college fund. the college taking an
insurance on his life. and receiving its
final reimbursement nearly twenty years
later. Then came deprivation Of eyesight,
so that he managed to finish his sopho-
more year without failure at the examina-
tions only through the help of a class
mate. Mr.. John Emery. who read TO him
and heard his recitations.
After leaving Harvard the need Of ont
of-door life and the prospect Of intellec-
tual companlonship at a time when books
were forbidden TO him by the Oculists,
turned Mr. Dana to the Brook Farm Asso-
citation for Agriculture and Education,
then recently established I'm West Rox-
bury. In that remarkable attempt TO
combine high Ideals Of thought and con-
duct with the manipulation of fertilizers
and the cultivation of vegetables Mr..
Dana was associated with Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, Margaret Fuller. George William
Curtis. A. Bronson Alcott, William Henry
Claiming. George and Sophia Ripley and
others. Theodore Parker. as pastor Of
the Unitarian Church in West Roxbury,
was i'm close touch with the community.
Mr.. Dana's share I'm the division of labor
was the management of the fruit depart
ment
START IN NEWSPAPER WORK.
In one way Brook Farm determined Mr..
Dana's career for while a member OF
that celebrated community he had a part
in the MANAGEMENT OF a publication called
the Harbinger devoted to social reform,
transcendental philosophy. and general
literature. In 1874, when the condition OF
his eyesight permitted him TO 60 to work
IN earnest, he obtained n place under
Elizur Wright on the Boston Chronotype.
q daily newspaper, and from that time
until his death. his connection with daily
journalism was unbroken except during
the period Of the civil war.
Mr.. Dana had a great facility in lam
guages. He wrote and spoke fuently, ana
with absolute accuracy. not only French,
German. Spanish, Portuguese and Italian,
but also Danish. Swedish and Norwegian.
He was also intimately familiar with the
literature OF all these countries. which IS
remarkable when one thinks what little
time a busy editor can have to read II he
follow closely as Mr. Dana necessarily
had TO. the currents events of the day.
AS a master OF Greek and Latin he was
well known. and his ripe scholarship. his
extraordinary political and social erudi-
tion, his versatility and his indomitable
energy the reading and thinking public
can form some idea OF from his work.
Above all things else he was quick IN
mind and movement He is said to have
been able TO read all the morning papers
Of New York I'm fifteen minutes.
MR.. DANAS OFFICE LIFE.
Julian Ralph few years ago described
Mr. Danas office life as follows:
you may see him on any day. except
Sunday. at the corner window in the third
story of the Sun Building. leaning back
i'm his chair TO rap his fingers with his
pencil while he Is thinking. or bending
over "A table 10 write. The room in which
ne Is seated is one Of four that compose
the editorial suite. II contains a desk.
two chairs, a small table and rug as its
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