Word: thorean
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...England is a special place for me. It's the home of Crimson, Thorean and Longfellow. To imagine these writers and poets roaming the trees of Harvard astounds me," the student explains...
...relationships and the sheer boredom of school: in one of the few moments of levity in the book, he writes that the person produced by the schools "At worst...will be somebody like Moynihan. At best he may be somebody like Galbraith. There is no danger he will be Thorean...
...What accumulates in the halls over the years, then, is a pile-up of spirits and vibrations-thought-bubbles stacked to the ceilings. For Emerson and Thorean and the luminaries of four centuries not only slept here, but studied and wrote in these rooms. (Thomas Sterns Eliot wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock the winter of 1909, his senior year...
Next to the mischievous, Hollis has also housed some of the "greats" of Harvard. Among its alumni, the Hall can number Emerson, Thorean, Santayana, and President Eliot. But perhaps the best loved in the College was Charles T. Copeland, who as an instructor in English was one of the first faculty members to cultivate a wide undergraduate friendship. "Copey" kept open house Wednesday evening in Hollis 15 for many years. The most distinguished students, however, has passed almost unnoticed from College history; he had only one asset. His name was William Shake Speare...
...Thorean" Professor Maithiessen. Harvard...