Phillips Brooks’ Books and Emerson’s Mental Mist: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 6
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 …
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 …
Going to the Theatre with Longfellow: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 5 Read More »
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 …
(This photo shows a newly transplanted seedling at the end of an irrigation injector line and a blue tag with its number designation.) Through funding from the U.S. Fish and …
Keeping Up with Conversation: Protecting Florida Goldenaster Read More »
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 …
The Hunger for Self-Education: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 3 Read More »
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 …
The First Job: Fifty Cents a Week: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 2 Read More »