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Henry David Thoreau went into the woods to confront what he grandly called "the essential facts of life." Spartan-like, he observed flowers blooming, raindrops falling, seasons changing. Of course, the essential facts of Thoreau's life included Emerson's loan of the cabin site at Walden Pond and such genteel activities as frequent walks into Concord for civilized conversation and home cooking. H.D.T. had it both ways, which is more than can be said for the nature he wrote about. The shadow of the surveyor and his Damoclean plumb bob had already fallen across the land...
...only requisites for joining the ranks of venture capitalists are a large pool of money and a penchant for gambling. The industry is an amorphous collection of risk takers: wealthy families (including the Rockefellers and Whitneys), large corporations (Emerson Electric, Dow Chemical, Exxon), groups of private investors and the 320 Small Business Investment Corporations. S.B.I.C.s, which will dispense a total of $100 million in new financing this year, are groups of private investors who supplement their own capital by issuing Government-guaranteed debentures. This week the Small Business Administration, which regulates S.B.I.C.s and sells their securities, will open bids...
Students in Sever and Emerson Halls will be surrounded by the construction projects next year and nobody is exactly sure how much of a problem the noise will...
...EMERSON HALL 210. Fahrenheit 451, by Francois Truffaut, with Julie Christie and Oskar Werner, Mar. 23, 7:30, $1. Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mar. 22, 7:30, Mar. 23, 9:30, $1. Presented by West European Studies...
Charles H. Wesley, who obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1925, told 100 people in Emerson Hall to let Du Bois' name "live at Harvard in an institute of learning...