University of Maine at Presque Isle - Salmagundi Yearbook (Presque Isle, ME)

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SALMAGUNDI 3 special benefit of an enthusiastic and admiring audience. 1 , Preparations for dinner proved m01'9 attractive than anything else and soon a jolly, hungry crowd sat downto a bountiful repast which had been provlded from the larder of Normal Hall. . After dinner was over and the dishes dutifully washed by a few faithful ones, canoeing and search- ing-forx birch bark were the chief forms of amuse- ment, except for Miss Davis who found things rather dull and slept away the hours of the bright afternoon. Many 'canoe loads went up the stream about a mile to Mr. Phair's camp and to another cottage Where 21 higher 'see-saw tempted some to partake of the amusement of the morning. Soon all returned to the camp and supper was served. Alittle before sunset we started for home and merry songs rang out over' the peaceful iwater-water S0 clear and quiet that 'every tree and shrub was re- flected init as in a mirror. i i It was a tired but happy crowd that wended its way slowly back to Normal Hall after one of the most happy days in the history of the school. C. '10, Representative lVlen. -qi-1-n Chief among .American authors stands Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wlilie sage- of .Concord.,' ' Morepeople have been taught to think through his influence than through that of any other modern writer.' . r In 1847, this celebrated poet and essayist, made a lecture trip to England. While there he delivered a course of lectures, six of which he afterward selected and gave to the 'world in the form of 'fRepresenta.tive Men. A Q . . Emerson loved to think of men of power, men who would be masters of any situation, and those fitted in strength of mind to be types worthy to. be held before the world. Such are the characters given us in this essay. r ' ' r ' Those whom Emerson chose and exalted in this work are, 4'Plato, ' the Philosopliergll HSwedenbdrg, the Mystic, '4Montaigne, the Skeptic, Shakes- peare, the Poet, 4'Napoleon, the -man of the world, and Goethe, the Writer.'7 4 ' I' ' Theauthor iirsttells us of. the uses of the great. He shows us, that but for our leaders in thought, but for the strength and veracity ofgood men, the world would notbe a wholesome place in which to live. We should have no high ideals. He says that great men

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