Note 2 — Chapter II · • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Transcendental Critic

“Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot. Everything will be permitted there which goes to adorn Boston whiggism: ... but that which it exists for,—to be a fountain of novelties out of heaven, a Delphi uttering warning and ravishing oracles to elevate and lead mankind,—that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of. On the contrary, every generosity of thought is suspected, and gets a bad name.” (Ibid., Vol. IX, p. 215.)