The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-07
! Commemorate -
.. Birth of Emerson.

fsntrdse s.i.iIv celebrate the hundredth an
"a v,fsiu oih ,' h;,,h Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
4, .fssry o. -. most universally known and dis
grabaor -, long list of notable alumni III
gishee y 80, raised by the suggestion OF
shon la graduate and is understood to b
know, .sS.tion BY the college authorities, al
Der eon;'. ,ot vet taken definite shape in ar
a HI deeision' Lono-.d anv one man by
83snalu form Of tribute although her an
pai's.,Led bv several important eeleorauons
ss 10 .ro hundredths and two hundredth ana
ins w ;,ersaries OF the founding OF the col
tn ~ ~ great peace celebration at the close
II All war. To devote a special period OF
ins .orstion even to Ralph waldo Emerson
~. would be step aside from what mas
sl''s .irnost a traditional policy. On the other
ohie t,s recently celebrated the hundredth
ID ise Aa tbe birth of Horace Bushnell, and
Neisat ~ the graduation of her great
rnou'Dn ,nisl Webster while special COM
fnnu, ~ this character have long been
!, y.rious European universities.
zFion II s-ssen, case the position of Emerson
me 49, Thought is almost as unique as in
Be- .st' - Harvard. And it is further pointed
n as'o. ,o ~ his most opoch-making addresses
n'. nhicb was called by Oliver Wendell
onr intellectual Declaration Of indie
a s.s..S-vsre both delivered in Cambridge
!! before Harvard audiences
"a I + Z
r.. Great Concord philosopher graduated at
& - IN 1871. at the age Of IS, and his early
...s IN more ways than one even more closely
SOD with Harvard than that OF almost any
\ :, If her great alumni. He came here as
- nan Obliged to exc out an insufficient
N ore by whatever extra employment he could
M s,,6 mr. mind TO- During his first year he
Fl. 4. presidents Freshman" position, long
,boIisbed that made him the intermediary
,T.sn o,esident and students and gave him in
..,.rly an unusually wide acquaintance even
N hos. davis of small classes and general ac-
,in,sretsh;p. At one time too, he was a
r,,e tutor TO a younger student, and at an
t.r like so many good men since, waiter
81 ,t4 Commons" or college boarding service.
INV persons will remember the story of how
E foture philosopher, who had carried home
II =. Gao won in a prize defamation, was after
M "A En- much chagrined to discover that the
anew be had hoped would buy his mother new
n nj had gone to pay the bakers bill. A few
N, ago. with the consent of President Eliot,
HI, Harvard archives were systematically ran
II ,k,d for minor information concerning him,
I'm the result that almost a small library of
4 t.cdc,es and miscellaneous knowledge was &C
Emulated, while the various rooms he once oc-
b psd In Hollis Hall-oue of the old-fashioned,
Uncovered college dormitories--are visited year
E BY little army OF tourists from all over the
@tV.
Il BIT. Of course II is not so much what Emerson
ma At Harvard as the part which he played later
a.. h. he ,,,i,rarc,tty "a
Id, suggested the idea of formally celebrating the
!. hndredth anniversary of his birth. Par
ocular stress is being laid upon the two famous
ld,ss.s already mentioned--the first of them de-
fys.d before the Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard S
aH scholarly society, on August 81, 1887; and
IT, J. second before the graduating class of the Har-
bid Divinity school in July of the year follow
fs Both Of these addresses, as has been said
rs epoch-making in way, too, that can hard
FL understood nowadays when the principles
LIZ advocated have become so much a matter
course. The first was a determined plea for
30 freedom Of American scholarship from mere
#E srvie dependence on European letters, while
r. second demanded with equal bodness that the
#iflnt Of man be set free from the letters of cs-
ASshed religious dogma
= La me admonish you first of ALL" said Emer-
% On this latter occasion, TO go alone; to re-
use the good models, even those most sacred &c
~ Imagination Of men, and dare to love God
ftauut mediator or veil" Such an adinohitior
L tsn we'll startle the religious opinion OF less
H smtyhve years ago, far and wide al the
fneple has since spread into American life
mere IS another movement in Cambridge which
ens toward the probability of an Emerson cee
lauon on May u.s. 1903 1t is hoped Their that
hsw building of the philosophical depart
al Emerson Hail." will at least have rebchec
aase when ground can be broken and th4 cor.
"he laid, The new structure is to be the
o. me department which embraces th4 his
Y :, phiosophy--or universal knowledgd," a,
syuo nave been called in an earlier pcribd O.
s'snip--ot metaphysics. or the theody o
Muge and of psychology, logic, eEhics
ss"S and religion, The funds necessary t.
INC building are new accommodating from
- private sources in answer to stateEmen
- some months ago by Prof. Hugo Muen
H.. y chairman of the philosophical depart
n III iHe reasons given for the name, as SLATED
No. recent announcement, will dout tiles
- sOp ammunition for those now urging tn,
H., nave sought" he says, zone whose ram
~ give symbolic expression to this underly
L h@'unent OF idealism and might thus prdper
connected with the whole building. M ca,
uI technical philosopher. Such nam
lS,,nSu'e ate prejudice for special system o
h nss spuy, while we want above all freedom o
i. w., y ought to be an American, to rernin,
Il h, las generation that they do not live up Il
asiS Ts OF the School of Philosophy il the
Z 4. 'alh thoughts imported from other part
Y se;,,u ~'a' but that they themselves as youn,
Hal tso,e ought to help the growth of philoso
!. Il, Solsht 1t ought to be Harvard man
I ( sly an t ~ memory deserves that his name b
sscsa-, NE lips of Our students. and who's
IL Il ana whose writings will remain foun
.. S,,n INSPIRATION. Only one man fulhlls al
B 81, nus anus perfectly, Ralph Waldo Emerson
ssisI ~lsn and hope that the new, digni6ed
ID nora, . .mS, OF philosophy may soon rise a
& ssn ana !, intellectual center Of Harvard uni
" Ems,.a oS' over It's doors we shall see til
AeIbs,' n Hall-School of nilosophy."
= 81 er.' ~. not the plans for this new builain
d, p, g.ugn advanced to make It play par
sia. Al ;ns; Celebration, they are in them