Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several guest lecturers will speak to members of the University today and tomorrow. This afternoon at 4 p.m. Professor Justin M. O'Brien '28, of Columbia will discuss "Andre Gide as a Complete Man of Letters" in Emerson Hall...
...quote from Emerson's essay Compensation seems fitting: "The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side...
...Wellesley debater, dressed in black, claimed to be "in mourning" for a close friend who had committed suicide rather than risk dishonor. Another claimed she had once refused a date with an M.I.T. boy. But the freshmen replied with a quote from Emerson: "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons...
...making enemies. With his authority as Harry Truman's Air Force Secretary (1947-50), he has spoken up determinedly for stronger national defense. Organized labor rates him as one of twelve Senators with a "perfect" voting record; yet. as the onetime board chairman of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., Symington is viewed benignly by businessmen. His close personal and political friends range from Convair Vice President Tom Lanphier to the Electrical Workers' President Jim Carey. He has stood consistently with the Senate's liberal civil rights bloc; yet he has somehow managed to keep...
Only two members of the Committee on Student Activities could be reached for comment. Rupert Emerson, professor of Government, remarked that the new student center seems "a highly favorable and necessary thing." He added that it possible he would like to see a new building that would meet the problem...