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Day 52 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge




Jul 27: ON THE ANTISEPTIC PRINCIPLES

Once Surgeons Operated in Frock Coats

The use of antiseptics in surgery is new. Hardly more than a
half century ago surgeons operated in frock coats. Lord Lister,
surgeon to Queen Victoria, was among the first to advocate
scrupulous cleanliness in dressing wounds.

Read: ON THE ANTISEPTIC PRINCIPLES ..........   Vol. 38, pp. 257-267


Jul 28: Cowley's OF AGRICULTURE

An Idyl of Agriculture

Cowley portrays the ideal life—that of a farmer, and blazons it
forth in heraldry. "A plow in a field arable"—to him, the most
honorable of all emblems.

Read: Cowley's OF AGRICULTURE .............   Vol. 27, pp. 61-69


Jul 29: Emerson's STONEHENGE

Stonehenge—England's Unsolved Mystery

Stonehenge, that group of huge, rudely architectural stones on a
vast plain in England, was erected no man knows when, nor
why, nor how. Emerson, America's greatest thinker, visited this
monument and was amazed at the "uncanny stones."

Read: Emerson's STONEHENGE .................    Vol. 5, pp. 453-462



Jul 30: Gilbert's VOYAGE TO NEWFOUNDLAND

The First English Colony in North America

When the whole coast of America north of Florida was free to
the first comer, Sir Humphrey Gilbert naively chose to settle
on the rugged shores of Newfoundland. Read the glowing account
of his great adventure "to plant Christian inhabitants in
places convenient."

Read: Gilbert's VOYAGE TO NEWFOUNDLAND .......   Vol. 33, pp. 263-273