EMERSON, HAVEN

(1874), b. in New York; educated at Harvard and Columbia Colleges. Has been practising medicine in New York since 1899, 1902-1914 A ociate in Physiology and medicine at College of Physicians and Surgeons. From 1906-1914 was a istant visiting physician of Bellevue Hospital. From 1915-1917 Commi ioner of Deartment of Health, and president of Board of Health. Lecturer at Columbia College, and at University of Cornell was profe or of Preventative Medicine. Served with the Medical Corps during the World War. Was decorated by the French Government and was Officer of Legion of Honor. Was a director of the Cleveland Hospital and Health Survey. 1882), American philosopher and poet. B. in Boston, May 25, 1903; d. at Concord, Ma . April 27, 1882. S. of Rev. William Emerson a Unitarian clergyman. He studied at the Boston Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1821 (Overseer 1867-1879). At college he won second prize for composition and was cla poet. For a short time he taught school in Boston and then studied for the ministry under Ellery Channing, and was later elected a istant, then sole minister of the Second Church (Unitarjan), Boston. He resigned in 1832 owing to scruples against the administration however to preach occasionally at other churches until 1847. Visiting Europe in 1833 he met Landor, Cole ridge, and other noted men, including Carylyle whose lifelong friend he became, editing the American edition of ‘Sartor Resartus’. On his return to America he located in Concord, Ma ., where he prepared the lectures he delivered in Boston and vicinity. His tractate ‘Nature’ 1836 was hailed as an important work. His ‘Concord Hymn’ of same year and oration ‘The American Scholar’ increased his reputation. ‘K ays’ First Series appeared in 1841 and @ Second Series in 1844. He helped found ‘The Dial’, organ of the New England transcendentalists, and succeeded Margaret Fuller as editor. His ‘Poems’ appeared in 1847, and in 1856 he lectured in England, publishing ‘English Traits’ on his return to America. A volume of e ays ‘Conduct of Life’ appeared in 1860. ‘May Day and Other Poems’ 1867, and a prose work ‘Society and Solitude’ 1870; ‘Parna us’, an anthology of English verse 1874, and a last volume of e ays in 1875. Like Carlyle Emerson was a pantheist, and he insisted on the identity of physical and moral law. Towards science his attitude was that of a poet and Platonist. He was a strong individualist. Whatever hindered the development of individuality he considered an evil.