Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)

"Paul Revere's Ride" (text, 中譯)

"A Psalm of Life" 〈人生頌〉(text, 中譯)

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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

The Last of the Mohicans 《最後的摩根戰士》(text)

改編電影《大地英豪》(1992) (Trailer)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Nature 《自然》(text)

Transcendentalism 超驗主義

→ American Renaissance(literature) 美國文藝復興 (Roughly from 1850-1855)

　→ 代表作品:

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Representative Men (1850),

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850) and the House of Seven Gables (1851),

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851),

Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854),

and Walt Ahitman's first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855). 

→ Man must rely on himself, for in doing so de is trusting in God. 天助自助者。

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Four pillars of University:

竹教大校訓

博 雅 弘 達

知識博廣

德行雅正

氣度恢弘

見識通達