Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Come see the FOX-TV News video Tuesday, April 12, 7:30 p.m. in Emerson Hall. Henry Seals...
...cured" with the aid of Prozac & Co., as discussed by Walter Kirn in "The Danger of Suppressing Sadness" [VIEWPOINT, May 31]. It is a shame that Joan of Arc in her benighted state could not have similarly been "cured." Unproductive individuals hostile to mainstream society, ranging from Socrates to Emerson, could have been chemically corrected for their own good to better adhere to the norm. If everyone conformed, schools could successfully be made up of "productive" students who effectively stick with traditional studies and perhaps make the honor roll. It seems that we must eliminate the deviant geniuses and artists...
...Hanford suspends a College rule prohibiting personal solicitation of funds in the Houses and dormitories, allowing the Food Relief Committee to collect funds for relief efforts in countries including Greece, Poland and China. The campaign is supported by folk singer Pete Seeger '40, who gives a free concert in Emerson Hall two weeks later...
...defiantly American institution despite its many Oxbridge influences, Harvard is not only part of the lawn-lovin' American Dream, it helps shape it. Emerson's American Scholar address (given in the Yard, perhaps?) and his otheR writings helped define the Dream in its inception. Today, Bercovitch's course The Myth of America analyzes where the Dream went thereafter. The grass is in there somewhere (see Walt Whitman's book of poems,"Leaves of Grass...
...poser, a posturer, a suburbanite whose closest interaction with the underground music industry consists of accidentally downloading an MP3 from a non-mainstream artist. So when called on to "check out the hip-hop conference that's happening this weekend," I'm intimidated not just a little bit. Approaching Emerson Hall, licking the remnants of fried dough from my fingers, my worst fears are confirmed. Blocking the front door is a group of dreadlocked combatants--they are speaking in elevated tones and circling each other warily...