Word: emerson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn of the century, Professor Bliss Perry referred to the department in quoting the words an old lady had once spoken in reference to a lecture of Emerson's. "It had no connection," she said, "save in God." And Chairman Bate today adds, "Perhaps our frail, earthly unity is also provided by this strange, old building...
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...nonconformity is to have its rightful say in American life, as it did with Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Veblen, it must stop making a fetish of itself. Conformity ... may, in the end, prove to have the greater attraction for those genuinely seeking a free and full life. After all, unrestricted amateur nonconformism is one of the honorable paths in American history. In the meanwhile, we must oppose all efforts of the dedicated nonconformists to make us not conform according to their rules...
...Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, and third member of the panel sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe United Nations Council, argued that the United States should "bring pressure on Chiang Kai-Shek to get a withdrawal of Nationalist troops from Quemoy and Matsu...
...tonight, Stephen T. Riley, director of the Massachusetts Historical Society, will speak on the Society in Holmes Hall, while Kenneth Burke will speak on a "Dramatistic Calculus" in Emerson 237. Friday evening at 8 p.m. Professor Norman A. Malcolm of Cornell will lecture to members of the Philosophical Club on "Ontological Argument" in Emerson...