Word: emersons
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...return. "We've got no time for that prewar folderol 'Fish or cut bait'. There were double-decker banks in the houses, chow lines, both lines at the Coop". The new Harvard bore only occasional resemblance to the old, great professors still trod the floor boards of Server and Emerson, but these stars (Perry Miller forcemeat among them) had only two names, not the three (George Washington Pierce, George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Coppland) that had distinguished their predecessors. The clubs carried on, but as D.U. member Peter S. Prescott '57 insists. "It was impossible to underestimate their importance;" they...
Lance Morrow's timely tribute to Ralph Waldo Emerson [May 10] may have salvaged singlehanded the man's work from burial. Past generations of students were probably bored stiff with Emerson, but today we would be hard-pressed to find a public school where Emerson hasn't long ago been replaced by tales of streetwise punks-all in the name of relevancy...
Your Essay will remind Americans that their philosophical heritage should be reconsidered. In 1837 Emerson wrote, "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." America could renew itself with some of Emerson's idealism...
...Emerson sought to organize the individual soul, not an entire society. His works were essentially prayers for intelligence and character. He preached the holiness of the conscious mind. It is a vision of personal possibility, not a program for the state. Emerson must be held blameless for the fact that his exaltations on individual get-up-and-go have ended, in the fullness of time, by producing George Steinbrenner...
...look for too much in Emerson; he claimed so much for himself: "Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation ... A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world." Emerson was also a bundle and knot of contradictions. He recoiled against the doctrinal chill and constriction of New England, yet he became a sermon and a prayer. His rhapsodies were lovely and extremist in the way of a Puritan metaphysician: "I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall." -By Lance Morrow