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Initially, that answer, while disappointing, was enough to convince Cremarosa that all potential avenues had been explored. But as the season unfolded with him on the sidelines, the itch to play again returned with a little prodding from Dick Emerson, the head athletic trainer, and others helping his rehabilitation. With the return of that desire, Cremarosa began exploring possible means to attain that...
...garnered an experience most Harvard students will have to wait four years to encounter. “Two of my roommates don’t go to Harvard. That’s kind of cool,” says Davis. One of her roommates is a student at Emerson College and the other is already in the workforce. Davis enjoys the idea of drawing on a unique variety of perspectives outside the so-called Harvard bubble. “I know things that I wouldn’t know about, especially concerts,” says Davis. She goes into...
...woods," wrote Emerson, "we return to reason and faith." In the woods around North Fork, Wash., however, the waiflike runaway and mushroom picker who stands, often silently, at the center of David Guterson's new novel finds a vision of the Virgin Mary. She also finds Satan, smart alecks and all the screaming spirits of premillennial America crying out to her for salvation. Within days of her first Marian sighting, 5,000 pilgrims are following the ecstasies of what they call Ann of Oregon, Greater Catholic Merchandise Outlet trucks are circling around and timber companies are sending out their...
...inseparable. Furthermore, to suggest that the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi were not the primary inspiration for the political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. would be to call King himself a liar. Confucius wrote of the perils of a foolish consistency more than 2,000 years before Emerson set foot on the Earth and wrote the same in “Self-Reliance,” which, like the writings of King, is taught in the government department’s introductory course on political theory. The freedom from compulsion in religion was written into the Quran some...
...goes back to the late 19th century and to some of the men who gave their names to important Harvard buildings. According to Christopher S. Queen, Lecturer on the Study of Religion and teacher of a seminar on American Buddhism, Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, were very interested in Buddhism and Hinduism, though they were not entirely clear on the difference between the two. Thoreau even translated a portion of a Buddhist text from the French version. A more concrete academic interest in Buddhism was developed by William James. After...