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...SENIOR YEAR, Jennifer Kennedy '90, a Women's Studies concentrator, spent a long time thinking about Rousseau's dog. Her Hoopes-winning thesis, entitled, oddly enough, Rousseau's Dog, analyzes several theories of women's education using Rousseau's dog as a key to understanding the French thinker. The paper now resides in the Harvard University Archives, along with many other, far less titillating Hoopes-winners...
Kennedy's wit is astounding; she starts the paper off at a brisk clip, with a brief, but precise, justification of her topic: "Every dog must have its day: this thesis is about Rousseau's dog." "Kennedy goes on to explain her treatment of the poor creature, "By 'dog' I will mean, first, the dog as metaphor, the dog as such in Rousseau's thought. Second, there are Rousseau's actual dogs, of whom he was very fond...
...eminently multicultural; it addressed a well-founded Native American grievance regarding the law's treatment of Indian minors; and it dovetailed nicely with the public misgivings about the criminal justice system's inability to rehabilitate. By contrast, James offered up the Alaskan islands as a type of Rousseau's Eden where, he enthused, the boys' "attitudes can be affected by nature and nature's god. By beholding ((nature)) you become changed...
...think it's difficult to design a list of 20, 30, 40 books. I certainly would have no problem," Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes says. "There are books that have made a very major impact on Western thinking: Locke's two books on human understanding and government, Rousseau's Social Contract, Mills On Liberty, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics...and the Bible," to name...
Rule 3: Come prepared. Stain Stick is only the beginning. To kill the 34 minutes (or 56 for a dryer) in a socially acceptable manner, students carry everything from romance novels to Rousseau...