Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle of the 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson registered a lyric complaint about the oppressive force of material goods: "Web to weave and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle and ride mankind...
Talk about your sensitive poets. If Emerson found such modest machinery as corn grinders dehumanizing, how would he handle the end of this century? Today we are more than ever slaves of technology, tethered to computers and cell phones and beepers. Meanwhile, we have to cope with unprecedented change. Things are riding us faster and faster...
Students came to Emerson 108 last night to ask about the Ann Radcliffe Trust. They left feeling their questions went unanswered...
Tonight we will start to get some of those answers. At 8 p.m. in Emerson 108, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, Acting Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Mary Maples Dunn, Dean Avery and Julia G. Fox, will be available to answer questions about the Ann Radcliffe Trust and women's issues on campus more generally. We welcome this meeting and hope a plan involving substantial, open student involvement can be worked out for governance of the Ann Radcliffe Trust...
...this time, most of the candidates have abandoned campaigning for classes. Dreyfus traverses the Yard one more time to get to his class at Emerson Hall. The lecture for Historical Study B-27, "The English Revolution," is his only Monday class, but he will spend the bulk of the afternoon in meetings at Hillel, where he is annual events coordinator, and doing work in his Quad dorm room will consume most of his evening...