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Speaking at Emerson Hall, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, the European correspondent for National Review, told an audience of about 30 people that total desegregation under majority rule could actually reverse recent economic gains made by Blacks there...
Before a crowd of about 20 people in Emerson Hall, Molly Anderson '84 and Benjamin B. Sherwood II '85 of the Democratic side urged national legislation for the restriction of handguns. Their opponents, Conservatives Tom M. Clark '85 and Bennett E. Cooper '83, emphasized the right to bear arms, and both said there was "no compelling reason to subvert that right...
...addition, Sasaki Associates suggested that the University rearrange lighting in two key areas of the Yard: the quadrangle between Widener Library, Emerson and Sever, and the area between Widener and Weld. Saltonstall says the project would probably cost more than $50,000 and would be "very sensitive" because of the historic nature of the Yard. Although some lighting changes are almost certain to be made in the Yard, he adds, they are probably a year or more away...
...class a few years back. Lord decided to teach Expos because she was distressed over the College's inability to train undergraduates in basic prose. She remembers that her most successful sessions included lectures from professional writers who shared their experiences with her neophyte authors. Gloria Emerson, who wrote moving accounts of the Vietnam war, brought many students to tears, Lord remembers, by describing the utter tragedy of her subject. "You have to figure out some way to move the kids," Lord says...
...photograph was young, in the 1840s and '50s, most cultivated Americans were apt to imagine the interior of their continent as a vast wilderness, formless, raw and antipathetic to man. By the 1860s and '70s, this had changed. Thanks to the ideas of men like Thoreau and Emerson, combined with the pervasive religious ideology of the American middle class, untamed landscape was now seen as beautiful and instructive in itself: the sublime fingerprint of God. This gave a moral excitement to natural curiosity; and both were reflected not only in painting (as in the work of Martin Johnson...