Word: emersonic
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...experience that will enable us to apply the knowledge we’ve presumably learned here, but also to acquire the practical and intangible that no 70-hour academic-cum-extracurricular-cum-social schedule that is our Ivory Tower Harvard life can provide. Our academic experiences in Thayer and Emerson seem necessary but also painfully insufficient during these sunny months that encourage creativity and challenge us to use the time as best we can.We are chasing some novel and edifying experience that is mercurial in both its grandeur and its elusiveness. Never at rest, and never complacent, we pursue...
It’s the reason Jackson Pollock gained an audience, the reason John Coltrane’s free jazz leanings became high art, the reason anyone listens to The Beatles’ “Revolution 9.” As Emerson put it, “art is a nature passed through the alembic of man”; it can translate the havoc of the world into a form that’s easier to understand...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. “We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the global community,” the weary president said in the waning days of the Second World War. “We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that ‘the only way to have a friend is to be one.’” The values of human equality and dignity that bind us to the rest of the world cannot be taught or presented in neat packages but must be learned...
...education the discovery of our own ignorance (Will Durant), the art of living an ethical life (Hegel), the ability to listen to almost anything without losing our tempers (Robert Frost), life itself (John Dewey), our best chance at happiness (Mark Van Doren), or the opening of doors (Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Emerson, to my mind, got it right. And when I read the January report on “Curricular Renewal in Harvard College,” I was reassured that we were also getting it right. After all, the report called for the creation of new courses in general education that would be “expansive in scope and integrative in approach.” The portal experience, it was emphasized, should be designed to “situate important texts, concepts, and discoveries in the context of larger problems and themes in ways that provide students with...