Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SEASCAPE By Edward Albee At the Loft Theater, Emerson College...
...Emerson would say that institutional people run the risk of losing their originality. The purpose of the institution is to homogenize, and those who don't homogenize get marginalized. The cost of joining is submitting to other people's ideas, to conforming to a pattern of thought and behavior as predetermined as the one adopted by a cobbler's apprentice...
...Emerson would have us avoid this problem by rejecting the institution altogether. He would have us Harvard students reading and writing on our own, perhaps in the woods or on mountaintop. He would have us hatch theories of republican government and generate interpretations of literary works that are unfettered by the latest conventional wisdom or the newest periodization of artistic movements. He would have us think for ourselves, outside the institution...
...Emerson's mountaintop is admittedly not very appealing. Nor is it practicable. Far better to stay here in Cambridge where the dorms are heated. But at the very least a colossal reevaluation of priorities is required. It is of immeasurable importance that we stop viewing titles and other forms of institutional recognitions as reliable signifiers of worth. Most titles are not altogether reliable (is everyone at Harvard as intelligent as you expected them to be?), and some are outright capricious (has every Oscar-winning director really made the best film of the year?).It is the responsibility of every Harvard...
...societywill hold another call to prayer on the steps ofWidener Library at noon and present a speech byGSAS doctoral candidate and Islamic Societygraduate adviser Taha Abdul-Basser. Abdul-Basser'sspeech is titled "Projection, Perception andOrientation: The Muslim Presence in America," andwill be given at 4:30 p.m. in Emerson 103.CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerVERY INTERESTING:JOSEPH BOURGHOL '99examines a poster in the Science Centerpublicizing Islam Awareness Week yesterday...