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...rather than soliloquize over the former Indian campground, let us move on into the Yard and see what it has to offer. Here walk the ghosts of Emerson and Thoreau, Kittredge and lots of Lowells; many of the great intellects of American history actually slept in these dorms. But that won't mean beans to you during Freshman Week, you just for here, no ghosts yet. Freshman Week is traditionally the time when Yardlings engage in a sort of mass baptismal rite, tearing around the Yard with anything that will hold liquid and dousing everything that moves. Traditionally, at least...
...impressive, very "Harvard" place but it isn't where you will spend a lot of your time as a freshman unless you have a compulsion to watch graduate students work their brains into naval jelly over their dissertations. A place where you might spend more time is Emerson Hall...
...walk around Emerson and look up carefully at the eaves you will see the inscription, "What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?" This inscription plaque was originally going to bear some sort of fruity paean to the excellence of man but President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, decided that he was going to teach the faculty a lesson in humility and he ordered that the less than exuberant quotation from Job be chiseled...
Harvard tradition that obliquely involves Emerson is "Boats," a History course on oceanic exploration taught by a professor affectionately known as "Commodore" Perry. Legend has it that a student took the course (something of an easy rid) and wrote a very bogus paper on whales and whaling. Figuring that he would need to dress up his anemic effort a little, he pasted a whale, cut from a National Geographic, onto the front cover of the paper and handed...
INSTRUCTOR: Kindly inform your class of the day, hour, and place of your examination. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1978 9:15 a.m. 8 O'CLOCK CLASSES Astronomy S-5 Memorial Hall Biology S-1b Memorial Hall Biology S-123 Science Center B Economics S-10 Emerson 105 Economics S-1010a Memorial Hall French S-Aab Boylston 10 Japanese S-102ab Memorial Hall Philosophy S-141 Memorial Hall Psychology and Social Relations S-1240 Memorial Hall Sociology S-10 Memorial Hall Spanish S-Aab Memorial Hall WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1978 2:15 p.m. 11 O'CLOCK CLASSES Astronomy S-6 Memorial Hall...