"The American Scholar" was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of a university founded in what year? 
The American Scholar: "The American Scholar" was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College at the First Parish in Cambridge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard College: Harvard College is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University. Harvard College:  Founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and one of the most prestigious in the world.
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