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This fall, at the Harvard Law School (HLS), Bromley Professor of Law Arthur R. Miller's taped lectures for the internet-based Concord University School of Law raised concerns about Harvard's general conflict rules for faculty, which state that a full-time faculty member's primary professional loyalty should be to the University...
Late Monday night, Shauna L. Shames '01 crept around on strangers' porches, dropping pamphlets bearing Bill Bradley's likeness on their stoops. Luke P. McLoughlin '00 stayed up all night placing Bradley campaign signs in Concord, N.H. And Thomas R. Snider, a third-year student at the Law School, got up early one morning to guard about 300 McCain for President signs. (Other campaigns like to take them down...
During the last decade of his life, Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) began a systematic survey of the Massachusetts vegetation surrounding Concord, where he lived in the third-floor attic of his parents' house. His mission, as he told his journal, was "to find God in nature," the Transcendental imperative he absorbed from his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. True, the 26 months Thoreau had spent living alone in a cabin by Walden Pond, memorialized in Walden (1854), involved a similar quest for some "trace of the Ineffable," but now he wanted to remove himself from the center of his observations...
...tension between Thoreau the naturalist and Thoreau the missionary for nature's wonders invigorates nearly every page of Wild Fruits. He portrays his subjects with keen clarity, but he also wants his Concord neighbors to wake up to the error of their ways: "We cultivate imported shrubs in our front yards for the beauty of their berries, while at least equally beautiful berries grow unregarded by us in the surrounding fields." He argues passionately against the careless destruction of the wilderness around him. Hearing that huckleberry pickers in his area have been ordered off privately owned fields, he fumes, "What...
...Concord press release said members of the Board of Advisors "guide instruction...