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...value systems, each of us nevertheless shares a deep commitment to the sanctity of human life. From this foundation we were able to arrive at five principles that unite us as well as similar groups from eight other campuses in the Boston area, including Boston University, Boston College, Emerson College, MIT, Brandeis University, and Northeastern University. First, we mourn the victims of Tuesday’s tragedy, and give support to friends and family left behind. Those who have suffered a direct personal loss from the attacks are among those who stress the need to protect all innocent life...
Delbanco's contribution to such efforts comes with every student he inspires. His model would appear to be Emerson, who, "like every great teacher," Delbanco once wrote, "was in the business of trying to 'get the soul out of bed, out of her deep habitual sleep.'" Delbanco is doing his part to jostle her awake...
Residential colleges face the challenge of assimilating a diverse student body and seeing that the students live as well as learn in harmony. Harvard requires incoming freshmen to read a booklet of essays on diversity by such writers as Henry Louis Gates and Ralph Waldo Emerson. During orientation, they are put in small groups to discuss the essays with faculty. "Students rate this one of the most powerful events of the entire orientation," says Richard Light, professor of education at Harvard and author of Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds...
...change. Some at Yale, like those who defended the Africans on the Amistad, did lend their support to the abolitionist cause. But as an institution, Yale took money made from slavery, celebrated slaveholders and even pro-slavery politicians, and educated others to follow in those steps. While Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, was telling students to reject outmoded ideas—like slavery—orators at Yale ridiculed him. In the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required Northerners to return fugitive slaves to their Southern owners, college speakers throughout the country argued fiercely...
...right.” He may honestly, if mistakenly, believe that slavery was morally (as well as legally) acceptable in the 1830s; he may even believe that it is wrong to condemn a university for accepting pro-slavery dogma rather than challenging it. But maybe we can realize with Emerson that it is the duty of the scholar to rethink old institutions and old ideas—and that it is the duty of the university to lead...