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Room 5 in Hollis Hall is under lock and key until later this month, when members of the Class of '74 will break it in all over again. Sunlight falls across the bare desk and plank floorboards like giant, felled sequoias. Ralph Waldo Emerson lived there in 1820, and he lives again these days, as does Henry David Thoreau in Hollis 23, where he roomed a decade later. Two doors down from him lived the early 20th century philosopher Santayana. John Hoyer Updike '54 spent freshman year in Hollis...
...What accumulates in the halls over the years, then, is a pile-up of spirits and vibrations-thought-bubbles stacked to the ceilings. For Emerson and Thorean and the luminaries of four centuries not only slept here, but studied and wrote in these rooms. (Thomas Sterns Eliot wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock the winter of 1909, his senior year...
...Friday forum, which will be held at 7:30 p. m. in Emerson 105, will also discuss the relation of the automobile strike to the anti-war effort...
...phase of our developing energy crisis." The problem is complicated in some areas by inadequate generating facilities and a lack of pipelines and power grids to carry gas and electricity to industrial centers. "Never before in peacetime have we faced such serious and widespread shortages of energy," says John Emerson, an economist and power expert for Chase Manhattan Bank. Many analysts believe the problems will be temporary, but some maintain that the energy gap may limit economic growth for years to come...
...corner of the soul, deeply hidden from any scholar's scrutiny. "The genius of Keats," said Irving Babbitt, "is precisely that part of him that cannot be explained by the fact that he was the son of the keeper of a London livery stable." "Can any biography," said Emerson, "shed light on the localities into which the Midsummer Night's Dream admits me? Did Shakespeare confide to any notary or parish recorder, sacristan, or surogate, in Stratford, the genesis of the delicate creation?" And George Steiner, writing of Painter's biography of Proust, said that it was so explicit, gave...