id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2254 Ralph Waldo Emerson - Wikipedia .html text/html 13461 2152 74 Emerson's formal schooling began at the Boston Latin School in 1812, when he was nine.[22] In October 1817, at age 14, Emerson went to Harvard College and was appointed freshman messenger for the president, requiring Emerson to fetch delinquent students and send messages to faculty.[23] Midway through his junior year, Emerson began keeping a list of books he had read and started a journal in a series of notebooks that would be called "Wide World".[24] He took outside jobs to cover his school expenses, including as a waiter for the Junior Commons and as an occasional teacher working with his uncle Samuel and aunt Sarah Ripley in Waltham, Massachusetts.[25] By his senior year, Emerson decided to go by his middle name, Waldo.[26] Emerson served as Class Poet; as was custom, he presented an original poem on Harvard's Class Day, a month before his official graduation on August 29, 1821, when he was 18.[27] He did not stand out as a student and graduated in the exact middle of his class of 59 people.[28] In the early 1820s, Emerson was a teacher at the School for Young Ladies (which was run by his brother William). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2254.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2254.txt