Word: emersonic
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...nature," Emerson wrote. "I am a weed by the wall...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...lintels and gateways, where generations past have inscribed quotations meant to be meaningful to the new ages of inhabitants. It is easy to walk across the campus deaf to these musings and epigrams--we do it all the time. We can't always stop to ponder the side of Emerson Hall and its quotation from Psalm 8: "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" or really consider what it means to enter the Yard across from Harvard Bookstore in order to "grow in wisdom" and leave it in order to better serve our country and our kind...
...walk through the Yard the week before Commencement gave me a chance to listen to some of the voices I've ignored over the last four years, and I stopped longest at my favorite plaque, on the right wall of the gate opposite the Science Center, where Emerson's journal entry from a day in 1836 is inscribed in elegant lettering. The slate tablet speaks more quietly than the shouts of the marble or granite inscriptions in the Yard, but its message is particularly resonant at this Commencement time. Emerson's quotation provides an unintentional counter to the pithy...
Elizabeth "Emy" Emerson Hancock...