Word: emersonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concur, then swing by The Harvard Bookstore this afternoon, March 13, at 3 p.m. for a reading/booksigning by Willard Van Orman Quine, Emerson Hall's own living legend. Quine (rhymes with wine) is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th Century, as well as a sparkling prose stylist and extremely brilliant guy. Tune in the following Friday, same time, same place, for a reading/booksigning by Daniel Dennett, M.I.T. philosopher and author of (among other things) Consciousness Explained. Creep on out from behind the Veil of Ignorance and enjoy the philosophical treats the Square has to offer...
Dartboard has an announcement to make: Emerson's large front doors have an alarming habit of locking closed. Dartboard realized this, of course, on the way to a History 10b midterm, and was not amused...
Admittedly, Dartboard was running late. But if the doors had been open, we would have been sitting in our favorite row in Emerson 210 on time. With the doors locked, Dartboard was left banging on glass, unheard and unaided. We then had to rush around to the side door and dash up the stairs, only to arrive into the distinctive midterm silence of pen on paper. And we apologize--after our minor ordeal, Dartboard had to trample over two poor souls in order to get to the room's one remaining seat. Next time we'll be hours early...
...first annual Harvard-Radcliffe Intercollegiate Consulting Competition, nine teams from Harvard, Yale and Wellesley battled for the top prize of $1,000 in Emerson Hall. Although two Harvard teams garnered second- and third-place finishes, the Yale team captured the check...
...came here to learn, didn't you?" ask promotional posters taped to Emerson gate in front of the Science Center. The prevailing assumption behind DTI activities is that many students at the College are not learning the fundamentals of participatory democracy, even despite efforts to do so by traditional means. The goal of DTI, given this environment of stifled learning, is to elicit participation, discussion and questioning...