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Excerpt from Concord Lectures on Philosophy, Comprising Outlines of All the Lectures at the Concord Summer School of Philosophy in 1882: With an Historical Sketch
N the Orchard House in Concord, Mass., in the room now the study of Dr. William T. Harris, began on July 15, 1879, the first term of the Concord Sum mer School of Philosophy. It was well attended and was received with much favor, more even than had been expected for so novel an enterprise. As a result, more ample accommodations were secured for 1880. Upon the hillside, only a few steps from the Orchard House, was erected the plain but convenient structure known as Hillside Chapel. For this purpose was taken a part of a fund of a thousand dollars given by Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson of New York City for the gen eral use of the school. An audience of a hundred and fifty can be accommodated in the chapel, and among the ornaments within are busts Of Plato. Pestalozzi, Ralph Waldo Emerson and A. Bronson Alcott. A mask of Anaxagoras hangs upon the wall, and over the mantel is an engraving of the School of Athens. Other engravings and photographs, which are changed from time to time, complete the list. Upon a low platform, in a wide alcove, stands the table at which the lecturers sit. Movable camp chairs and unpainted wooden chairs, ar ranged rather for comfort than in geo metrical figures, furnish the seats of the audience.
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