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Background: In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson's speech "The American Scholar," (in which he argued that in order to be a truly educated person, one must go into the world and contribute rather than seclude oneself in books) inspired members of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa to publish a quarterly journal of ideas. Four times a year, The American ...

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