Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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N' i 3 W ' hi, 'Fx-. . ., 1 ' w n.,,, vw 'B -.4 ,V I 9' ', ,'.'WP? 1 I GV! ,-9 r. ,44 FOUR REAT UNIVERSJTIES, Recollections and Impressions. , , -2- nnmm-mi , . . ' ' l lla experiences ot boyhood and of youth, though they are precious and are deeply engraved in the memory, are apt to become confused in the retrospect. NVe recall events by the year, perhaps also by the season in which they occurred. The summer in which one learned to swim or to sail a boat, the year in which he began to study Latin, are readily recalled 1 but in the even tenor of a boy's life few . 35' days stand out distinctly. His days are so much alike, his experiences so often repeated. that one experience overlaps or covers up that which preceded itg so that ulliw Hi I rx ,glihq i, ,' V il . ulnl Q , 5' M ,. .gp L l , it 1 V-3 'M i K i W f' - l' ' if ' 9 '1',': -S ' MUN, Q! ,gg vhs' 'xx ' ' L! 'ni-i 42 Ai I' , will , i X if g ,L . , We, l -i 12' ,H f .I h Mi gf' , ' - i ,Qin , ,E . .a..i.....- - :ml . ,Q v , cu f I ll l ik ,lf , ' .. ' - I : ,pg- vf' 1 ,-,, 253'- a, I , X ., , i iii '- H . . 1. . A W, .iii s-1 .f, ina' :fill i .,,, juris' :j , .gl , If ff Eg! yf :iff Q ii! ' W-' Lhil' i LJ .A ,.,,-., M, , , C .-..-:. -1-:Lee . -I .,. . J A lg his impressions, though deep and lasting, are often, in -' CQ, i in point of time, blurred and indistinct. Seldom is he able, Wifi-ii at least from his own recollection, to date with accuracy an early A impression, unless it be connected with some external event. Across the space of twenty-six years one day in my boyhood comes to mind with great distinctness-the midsummer day in which we fa family partyj drove over thirty or forty miles of Massachusetts roads. Early in the morning we passed the old manse which had been built for Emerson's grandfather. ln an upper room in this house Emerson began his Nature, and in the same room, a few years later, Hawthorne wrote his Mosses from an Old Mansef' which began with a charming descrip- tion of this historic home. It was in this room that the clergyman who then dwelt in the manse stood watching the outbreak of a long and deadly struggle between two nations g he saw the irregular array of his parish- ioners on the farther side of the river and the glittering line of the British on the hither bank. He awaited in an agony of suspense the rattle of the musketry. lt came, and there needed but a gentle wind to sweep the battle smoke around this quiet house. The Reverend lYilliam Emerson had encouraged his parishioners to withstand the British troops who had been sent to Concord to destroy military stores 1 but when the time for the struggle came. his people would not permit him to leave his house. Sixty-one years later. at the completion of the monument commemorating the Concord lfight, his grandson read the well-known poem on the spot where once the embattled farmers stood, .Xnd tired the shot heard round the world. IO

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At a short distance from the old manse we passed tl1e plain square wooden house 'l which was Emerson's home from the time of his mar- riage in 1833 until his death, forty-seven years later-the house in which he wrote his Conduct of Life and the greater part of his poems and essays. The fallen roof, the blackened walls, told of the destruction that had taken place only the day before. After driving about half a mile we passed the W'ayside, once the home of Bronson Alcott, afterward the home of Hawthorne during the last twelve years of his life. On his return from Europe Hawthorne added to the house a tower modeled after one that he had admired in Rome g and in this tower he wrote Qur Old Home, and the unfinished Septimus Felton and The Dolliver Romance. From Concord to Lexington we followed the road traversed by the British soldiers in April, 1775. At several places along this road are memorial stones, erected in honor of fallen patriots. Beyond Lexington our route coincided in part with that of Paul Revere in his famous ride. Late in the afternoon we drove under the old elm that shadows the place where, on July 3, 1775, NV3Sl1lllgiCOI'l took command of the American troops 5 and as we drove slowly past Cambridge Common, I caught a glimpse of old Harvard's scholar-factories red, as Lowell calls the dull-red brick buildings that to an American seem old, though the oldest was begun as recently as 1719. Though my boyhood was spent within a few miles of Cambridge, my visits to that city must have been infrequent 3 for my first distinct recol- lection of the buildings of Harvard does not antedate that long July day. Among the books in my father's library was Duyckinck's Cyclopeedia of American Literature, over the pages of which I used to pore by the hour, making the acquaintance of Captain -Iohn Smith, of Cotton Mather, of Benjamin Franklin, and of numerous other worthies of colonial and of later times. Among the illustrations was a wood-cut of the Harvard Library, Gore Hall, the architecture of which emulates in a mild way that of the noble chapel of King's College at the mother university in Cam- bridge, England. Through this and other pictures, the buildings of Harvard had been familiar to me for so long that I cannot with certainty separate the first actual view from the pictured view. Indeed, I am pos- sessed by a haunting fear lest in my recollections I may have confused the events of more than a single day. It would be hazardous to assert that the experiences of that day were actually a turning-point in my life. Yet it is a fact that only the summer before I was disinclined to go to college. Fired by the military biographies and histories that were so numerous during the years immediately follow- ing the Civil XVar, by the stories of the war told by my uncle, by the sight of his uniform, and by the fact that one of his horses-a genuine war- horse-had come into my father's possession, my ambition had set II