Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elizabeth M. Wilkinson, visiting professor of German at the University of Chicago, will deliver a public lecture on "The Notion of Artistic Detachment from Schiller to the Present Day" at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson D. Miss Wilkinson will draw examples from German, French, and English literature...
Eric Hoffer is a pink-faced, hornyhanded San Francisco dock worker who pays his dues to Harry Bridges' longshoremen's union and preaches self-reliance more stalwartly than Emerson. He gets up at 4:45 in the morning and spends his days working on the piers of San Francisco's Embarcadero. Evenings he spends in his room in a shabby McAllister Street lodging-house, bent over a plank desk, writing...
...response, to his story that Palmer enjoyed most came from Frederick Emerson Peters, who is a fabulous impersonator and confidence man. Recently, Palmer received a letter from Peters that was sent from a cell in the Lorton, Va. penitentiary. Peters wrote that he had read the TIME story about Palmer in the prison dentist's office, recalled that he had once met Palmer long ago, and sent him a $50 check for the project...
...this course. Auditors, go homel" A week later he was able to boast, "I chased all the auditors off in a day or two." The trouble was that many who had come as auditors stayed as regularly enrolled members, so that Poggioli had to announce, "We are moving from Emerson A to Longfellow Terrace. It should be very interesting teaching Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in Longfellow...
...makes to difference what an applicant's field of concentration is as an undergraduate, Emerson added, provided that he has met the basic pre-med requirements. Thirty percent of the applicants for the Medical School this year were non-science majors in college and their qualifications were "equal in every respect to those who concentrated in the sciences...