Word: emersonic
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...last night, students packed into Emerson 105 for the kickoff of the Veritas Forum-a debate on the existence...
...changing its widow treatment; she is now considered a target for 2002. (Carnahan must run in 2002 since it was her husband who was elected; she was only appointed.) G.O.P. polls in Missouri show that Carnahan runs even, at 43%, against former Congressman JAMES TALENT. Against Representative JO ANN EMERSON, Carnahan leads by 9%, but partisans point out that Emerson is not well known. Neither has announced intentions to run, but Republicans hope the numbers, and Carnahan's 29% unfavorable rating, will encourage one of them. What changed? "The Ashcroft vote turned her into a politician," says a Republican Senate...
...begrudge them, for myself or others. But it seems sad, really, that many folks will graduate from Harvard having been up the Washington Monument but not the one on Bunker Hill, having been to Ireland but not South Boston, the home of Kafka but not of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, or Longfellow...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson was in the exact same position as five students will be tonight--vying for the honor of a Boylston Prize in Elocution...
...Emerson's days, Harvard overseers mandated that students spend two years in a course that combined rhetoric and moral philosophy. The Boylston Prize, established in 1817, provided a competitive atmosphere for students to hone their skills...