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 …
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Going to the Theatre with Longfellow: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 5
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 …
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A Presidential Friend and a Boston Pilgrimage: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 4
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 …
Keeping Up with Conversation: Protecting Florida Goldenaster
(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 …
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The Hunger for Self-Education: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 3
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 …
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The Tendency to Country Life
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 First Job: Fifty Cents a Week: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 2
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 …
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