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Divinity Hall, ca. 1880s. The "Divinity School Address" is the common name for the speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838. Its formal title is "Acquaint Thyself First Hand with Deity."
A decade later, on July 15, 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his famous Divinity School Address, [2] "Acquaint Thyself at First Hand with Deity," in the Hall. The building is a rectangular two-story brick building, laid in Flemish bond, with only minimal brownstone trim.
After Harvard, Emerson assisted his brother William [29] in a school for young women [30] established in their mother's house, after he had established his own school in Chelmsford, Massachusetts; when his brother William [31] went to Göttingen to study law in mid-1824, Ralph Waldo closed the school but continued to teach in Cambridge ...
Henry Ware Jr. (April 21, 1794 – September 22, 1843) was an influential Unitarian theologian, early member of the faculty of Harvard Divinity School, and first president of the Harvard Musical Association. He was a mentor of Ralph Waldo Emerson when Emerson studied for the ministry in the 1820s.
"The American Scholar" was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard College at the First Parish in Cambridge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work Nature , published a year earlier, in which he established a new way for America's ...
Born in Salem, Massachusetts to two unwed first cousins, Jones Very became associated with Harvard University, first as an undergraduate, then as a student in the Harvard Divinity School and as a tutor of Greek. He studied epic poetry and was invited to lecture on the topic in his home town, which drew the attention of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Divinity School Address that year had been deeply arresting to him, [23] and he welcomed the opportunity to associate with Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, and several others. [24] Transcendentalists such as Henry David Thoreau and Parker wrote of the world as divine, and of themselves as part of this ...
Ware presented the sermon on September 23, 1838, [1] in the chapel of Harvard University. He intended it as a response to Ralph Waldo Emerson's Divinity School Address, delivered a few months earlier. Because of the wide circulation of Emerson's address among non-Divinity students, Ware found it necessary, after a lengthy exchange of letters ...