August 2022

Read Chapter 5 No one who called at Phillips Brooks’ house was ever told that the master of the house was out when he was in. That was a rule […]

When Edward Bok stood before the home of Longfellow, he realized that he was to see the man around whose head the boy’s youthful reading had cast a sort of

Edward Bok had not been office boy long before he realized that if he learned shorthand he would stand a better chance for advancement. So he joined the Young Men’s

With school-days ended, the question of self-education became an absorbing thought with Edward Bok. He had mastered a schoolboy’s English, but seven years of public-school education was hardly a basis

Article thought to be written by Edward Bok, Ladies’ Home Journal, 1898 Keep scrolling for the full transcript of the article One of the signs in American life which 1898

The Elder Bok did not find his “lines cast in pleasant places” in the United States. He found himself, professionally, unable to adjust the methods of his own land and