Word: emerson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wednesday, you make the move from whatever coal cellar the Registrar's Office has assigned you, to Emerson 105 ( or the Geological Lecture Hall ), thus enabling you to admit every student who came on Monday and then some. It is common form, at this second meeting, to express contempt for the building's impersonal architecture and the room's awesome size. No explanation is required for the decision to accept all your applicants, save to say you found choosing among them impossible...
...section at ten o'clock. He got out of his chair, put on some clean clothes, forgetting to shower beforehand (he was really preoccupied, because he had been sitting in the chair without moving for four days), and went to the section in Emerson Hall...
...keep a cow," Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "that cow milks me." Linder argues that the same holds true of the commodity time, and that as one result, people become slaves of the possessions and services that compete to fill their leisure hours. "One may possibly buy more of everything," he writes, "but one cannot conceivably do more of everything." To belong to a golf club as well as a sailing club is to spend half one's time going from one to the other, the other half observing all the social amenities that they entail...
...Thursday Lecture Series -- George Huntston Williams, "The Christian Attitudes towards Nature: an Historical Assessment of the Major and a Minor Tradition and the Problem of Conservation." Emerson Hall...
...International Seminar Open Forum--"Is Parliamentary Democracy Dead?" Emerson Hall 105. Followed by public reception in Bolyston Hall...