Henry Carter Adams
| Autor: | I. Leo Sharfman, R. M. Wenley, S. Lawrence Bigelow |
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| Rok vydání: | 1922 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Political Economy. 30:201-211 |
| ISSN: | 1537-534X 0022-3808 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/253424 |
| Popis: | An obvious drawback of academic life is that titles tend to obscure persons; and when, as with our colleague Henry Carter Adams, the man dwarfs the title, liability to misjudge or overlook becomes serious. Not till too late, death prompting inquiry or reflection, do we grow aware of the true reasons for the magnitude of our gain and loss. Even so, when we attempt a fit Memorial, the Odyssey of the spirit is all too apt to evade our tardy heed. The career of Professor Adams furnishes a typical case in point. Henry Carter Adams was born at Davenport, Iowa, December 3I, i85I. He came of old New England stock; his forebears had made the great adventure over sea in i623. His mother, Elizabeth Douglass, and his father, Ephraim Adams, were a likeminded pair, representative of the soundest traditions of New England character and nurture. Ephraim Adams, one of a small band of missionaries from Andover Theological Seminary who forsook everything for Christ's sake, arrived on the open prairies of Iowa in I842-the goal of three weeks' hard journey from Albany, New York. Their mission it was to kindle and tend the torch, not merely of religion, but also of education, among the far-flung pioneers. Consequently, it is impossible to understand why Henry Adams was what he was, became what he became, unless one can evoke sympathetic appreciation of the temper which determined his upbringing. For example, it may well astonish us to learn that his nineteenth birthday was but a few months off ere he received his first formal instruction. The reasons thereof may astonish us even more. The child had been sickly always, physicians informing the parents that he could not survive the age of fourteen. The " open prairies" proved his physical salvation. Given a cayuse |
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