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...unabashed individualism—a stark contrast to other institutions of higher education, such as the College of William and Mary, which explicitly considers developing “service involvement an educational experience.” Here, freshmen are given Emerson’s “Self-Reliance?? to read; from the very nascence of their college experiences, they are encouraged to cultivate the virtues of independence and personal growth...
What the College should do is expand an already-existing essay program, in which freshmen come together to discuss, among other texts, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1841 essay “Self-Reliance?? within their proctor groups. The initiative was started by Archie C. Epps III, in part to counter the racial tensions on campus that eventually led to randomization. Since then, essays have been added and subtracted, but Emerson’s “Self-Reliance?? has always been among them...
Archie also believed in the sanctity of the individual. It was not for nothing that Emerson’s “Self-Reliance?? was the one essay he wanted all freshmen to read. He had no patience for those, students and College administrators alike, who preached that you were what you were and you should not let Harvard change you. For Archie the opportunity to change at Harvard was essential to Harvard’s mission. Here you were in a place where you could be what you wanted to be, where you could lose your history...
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