The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24

George F. Hoar. Professor Charles Eio'
Norton, Professor William James ant
Colonel Thomas Wentworth HisEinson.
The Emerson centennial celebration viii
not end. of coursA, With the exercises Of tn.
next few days.
Nothing short of a revival Of the famous
Concord School OF Philosophy is sched.
uled for this summer.
1t has happened very fortunately that the
Emerson birthday year his conceded with
the first coming to Boston Of tho National
Educational Association-ths greatest body
Of professional educators In the World.
+ Between O.0W and $4,000 visitors, will re.
port IN Boston early In July to atte,.1 this
convention. and for the benefit Of these
as well as Of the regular Emerson enthust-
asts who have como together, from every
section Of the country. an Emerson Memo
rial School has been arranged, which win
present by far the most remarkable series
or literary events Boston has witnessed In
many a year.
The school II announced az opening on
July 10. Immediately after the close Of the
Educational Associations meetings. and
Will continue until August L
Thirty lectures in all lave been planned
for two each day. one Of them being held
In Concord in the morning. the other In
Boston IN the afternoon.
W OF the afternoon sessions WILL be de-
voted to "reminiscences Of Emerson by men
VINO were his personal friends.
This partial list Of lectures and lecturers
VIII serve to give an idea of the broad
scope OF the school:
THE Philosophy of Emerson" BY ]. q.
SChurman nrooj5a1t - ~.---y ,a.-.-
Emerson and the Concord School Of Phi
losophy." by Frank B. sanborn Of Concord
The Poetry OF Emerson" by the Reyer-
ehd 5, NJ. Crothers; "Emerson's Aim and
Method In Social Reform" by william M.
saiter; Emerson. the Puritan" oy the Rev.
erend Charles F. Dole; "The RELIGION OF
emerson" By Doctor Edward w. Emerson;
Emerson and Harvard" by the Reverend
Samuel A. Eliot: THE Sphinx" by Charles
Malioy; Emerson and the Anti-Slayery
Movement" by William Lloyd Garrison:
Emerson and the Civil War" by Moor
field Story: Emerson and the Inner Light"
by the Reverend P. F. Trueblood; THE
Simpler Emerson by the Reverend John
W. Chadwick: 'Emerson's wit and HUI
NOR" by Henry D. Lloyd; "Emerson's sp,r-
itual Leadership in England" by Perciyal
Chubb; "Emerson's Debt to Germany and
Germany's Debt to Emerson by Professor
kuno FTancke; Emerson and the Trans
cendental Movement" by George Cooke;
"Emerson's Gospel Of I~ndividualism," by
William r. Thayer; "Emerson's Place in
American Literature" by Professor c. Z.
Richardson; Emerson, the Seer Of Democ-
racy," by Rabbi Charles E7eischer; "Emsr.
son and Carlyle" by the Reverend C H
jefferson: Emerson, the Man, by the Rev
erend R. Heber Newton.
REMUNERATION OF QUIET
TOWN WHERE HE LIVED.
One Of the most interesting facts, GER
tainly. in the whole centenary Is the reju-
venation Of quiet Concord-"a bare little
as a recent English visitor wrote,
yet redolent with memories Of q rich past.
AS 1t is appropriate hat Harvard. Emer-
sons alma mater. should take the leading
part in establishing a new tribute to the
mans pervasive influence. so It Is proba-
bly, fitting that the white New England
house at Concord in which the sage lived
SO many fruitful years. cosmopolitan in
thought and provincial in habits. should be
the especial Mecca Of literary p~ilgrimagea