...THE ENORMOUS ROOM by E. E. CUMMINGS (Edward Estlin Cummings) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...ic Classics Series Publication The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...ronic transmission, in any way. The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Ji... ... to do what I can to see that such remonstrance is made. I still think too highly both of my own government and of the government of France to believe... ... forthwith dashed forth, bent on demanding from one of the tin-derbies the high identity and sacred mission of this personage. I knew that with the ex... ... particularly to secure our long- delayed permission. Accordingly I was in high spirits as I rushed toward the bureau. I didn’t have to go far. The my... ...at loose variety. The weak face now stepped forward, and asked me gently: “Hugh er a merry can?”—so I carried on a brilliant conver- sation in pidgeon... ...spirited conclusion upon a note so low as to wither us all. Then, too, the Schoolmaster. A little fragile old man. His trousers were terrifically too ... ...ke he had three mous- taches, two of them being eyebrows. He used to teach school in Alsace-Lorraine, and his sister is there. In speaking to you his ...

...-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing ... ...ance. This book germinated from seeds planted in the 1930s when a junior high print shop class introduced me to Gutenberg‘s invention. There, the ―... ...y prompted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping hi... ...pted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping historie... ...nd the Epilogue. 2 A high school student—recalling my mention of Aquatic Apes the previous week—... ...—Thomas Jefferson. Acknowledgments I wish to thank Martin M. Cummings, MD, director of the National Library of Medicine (1964–83), for ... ...akening me to the importance of citizen access to knowledge. Under Dr. Cummings two decades of leadership, the NLM became a unique international ... ...technologies punched into a computer hard drive—on March 3, 1989, when Dr. Cummings delivered his address on the Future of the Science Library at the... ...d college classmates Bob McGiffert and Art Morgan, online fellow Cubs fan Hugh Riddle III, Jim M. Rogalski at Duke University Medical Center Public ...

...et to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. -- 9. Largest Land Empire Ever-Illiterate tribes of nom...

...-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing ... ...ance. This book germinated from seeds planted in the 1930s when a junior high print shop class introduced me to Gutenberg‘s invention. There, the ... ...y prompted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping hist... ...pted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping histories,... ...nd the Epilogue. 2 A high school student—recalling my mention of Aquatic Apes the previous week—... ... —Thomas Jefferson. Acknowledgments I wish to thank Martin M. Cummings, MD, director of the National Library of Medicine (1964–83), for ... ...awakening me to the importance of citizen access to knowledge. Under Dr. Cummings two decades of leadership, the NLM became a unique international ... ...technologies punched into a computer hard drive—on March 3, 1989, when Dr. Cummings delivered his address on the Future of the Science Library at the... ...d college classmates Bob McGiffert and Art Morgan, online fellow Cubs fan Hugh Riddle III, Jim M. Rogalski at Duke University Medical Center Public ...

...ll. The Capitol stands upon the side of a hill, the front occupying a much higher position than the back; consequently they who enter it from the back... ...nators and Representatives are very diligent in their calls upon gentlemen high in office. I have been present on some such occasions, and it has alwa... ...is, for I was myself treated with the utmost courtesy by gentlemen holding high positions in the office, to which I was specially attracted by my own ... ... it. If he have none, he will amuse himself without it. His work is like a school-boy’s task; he knows it must be done, but never comprehends that the... ...cinnati has 170,000 inhabitants, and there are 14,000 children at the free schools—which is about one in twelve of the whole population. This number g... ...y the American people is much to us. I will now go on to the case of a Mr. Cummings. Mr. Cummings, it appears, had been for many years the editor of a... ... the army at Wash- ington, and Mr. Cameron gave an order to his old friend Cummings to expend 2,000,000 dollars, pretty much ac- cording to his fancy,... ...York State, and a relative of our other friend Morgan, was joined with Mr. Cummings in this commission, Mr. Cameron no doubt having felt him- self bou... ...sojourn in the States were perhaps those of Dickens, Tennyson, Buckle, Tom Hughes, Martin Tupper, and 307 Trollope Thackeray. As the owners of all th...

...driver of yourself. Talk of a divinity in man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity stir within h... ... wending to market by day or night; does any divinity stir within him? His highest duty to fodder and water his horses! What is his destiny to him com... ...e a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life ... ...w storms and rain storms, and did my duty faithfully; surveyor, if not of highways, then of forest paths and all across lot routes, keeping them ope... ...ost of my summers, I had free and clear for study. I have thoroughly tried school keeping, and found that W alden 64 my expenses were in proportion,... ...nly as far as Easy Reading, the primers and class books, and when we leave school, the “Little Reading,” and story books, which are for boys and begin... ...on Brister’s Hill, lived Brister Freeman, “a handy Negro,” slave of Squire Cummings once there where grow still the apple trees which Brister planted ... ...ghborhood. The last inhabitant of these woods before me was an Irishman, Hugh Quoil (if I have spelt his name with coil enough), who occupied Wyman’...

...ker Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Higher Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...e driver of yourself. Talk of a divinity in man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity 4 Walden s... ... to market by day or night; does any divinity 4 Walden stir within him? His highest duty to fodder and water his horses! What is his destiny to him c... ...e a philoso pher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a lif... ... most of my summers, I had free and clear for study. I have thoroughly tried school keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather ... ... only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and class books, and when we leave school, the “Little Reading,” and story books, which are for boys and beg... ..., on Brister’s Hill, lived Brister Freeman, “a handy Negro,” slave of Squire Cummings once, — there where grow still the apple trees which Brister pla... ... neighborhood. The last inhabitant of these woods before me was an Irishman, Hugh Quoil, (if I have spelt his name with coil enough,) who occupied Wym...

...or, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming, 149 -- Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors, 160 -- Winter Animals, 169 -- The Pond in Winter, 176 -- Spring, 186 -- Conclusion, 199...