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...blond woman in a neat pantsuit gestures at Hollis, and 30 or 40 elderly visitors murmur appreciatively. Thoreau and Emerson lived there? My, my. “Now we’ll head back to the coach and continue our tour with other historic sites of Boston,” chirps the tour guide, herding her charges south out of the Yard. As they leave, French native Marie-Christine translates the “three lies” for her elderly relatives...
...elderly tour groups may be impressed by Emerson and Thoreau, but what Shelley and Leslie, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, really want to know is where Conan O’Brien ’86 lived. “We’re on the Conan O’Brien Freedom Trail,” they giggle. They are less impressed with the male eye candy, however. “Well, I saw one kind of hot guy,” says Shelley doubtfully. “But I think they’d be hotter at Northeastern...
Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely was reciting the decorated prose of a 17th century high-church Anglican when he interrupted himself last week to talk about fashion magazines. But, as he explained to the massive Emerson 105 lecture hall, this was no tangent...
Though it is the self-reliant Emerson that Archie insisted we know, at this sad moment it seems to me more appropriate to tie him to another Emerson, the observer of the Harvard Bicentennial quoted on the Thayer Gate: “Cambridge at any time is full of ghosts, but on that day the anointed eye saw the crowd of spirits that mingled with the procession in the vacant spaces, year by year, as the classes proceeded; and then the far longer train of ghosts that followed the company, of the men that wore before us the college honors...
...years he spent here. He was known for his encyclopedic knowledge of Harvard’s history, which he would share with anyone willing to listen, and he occasionally passed long hours strolling through cemeteries as he visited the graves of former University presidents. Epps was fond of quoting Emerson, and when he announced his retirement, he spoke of the “long, winding train” of men and women who’ve touched Harvard. Epps certainly earned his place as one of the foremost among them, and he will be dearly missed...