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Harvard has long numbered distinguished Africanists among its faculty. When a graduate student in the 1960s, I took courses from Martin Kilson, Rupert Emerson and Robert Rotberg (I mention only political scientists). Since that time, the ranks of Harvard's Africanists have deepened dramatically...
...find inspiration for this first column, I reread our very own Ralph Waldo Emerson on the duties of the "American Scholar." He delivered an address by that name for the Phi Beta Kappa ceremony here at Harvard in 1837. According to Emerson, the responsibility of the academic is "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances...
...foreign policy, as elsewhere, consistency is generally a virtue, but, as Emerson noted, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. The consistency of America's Russia policy has become foolish and even harmful to the national interests...
More than 20 truth-seekers gathered in Emerson 105 last night for the first annual Harvard-Radcliffe Interfaith Forum, entitled "Understanding Belief...
Taking a walk around our ancient campus, one has no choice but to look American history in the face. So amazingly significant are the names that are carved onto the simple brick of our buildings: Adams, Quincy, Mather, Leverett, Kennedy, Emerson, Eliot, Winthrop, Cabot, James, Wadsworth, Goffe, Longfellow--the list is endless and boggles the mind. Indeed, the catalog of the intellectual, spiritual and political leadership of the United States bears so uncanny a resemblance to the list of Harvard's alumni that this College's designation as a fascinating and legitimate subject of study seems evident, even obvious...