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Several first-years referred to the history of the rooms they will now occupy. Eli A. Silver '95, claiming that writer Henry David Thoreau had lived in Hollis Hall as an undergraduate, wondered aloud if he could charge admission if Thoreau's room turned...
...societies. Harder to grasp is the way in which Western principles discriminate against the non-Western or nonwhite. Who or what is the villain here? Galileo? Einstein? The Magna Carta? The Bill of Rights? Was Martin Luther King Jr. diminished, made to feel inferior, when he read Henry David Thoreau along with Gandhi on civil disobedience? Or for that matter when he contemplated the Reformation launched by his 16th century German namesake...
...that goal may seem fairly ambitious, the course has undoubtedly had ample time to fine-tune any shortcomings it may have. Sadler says he has traced the course back at least 100 years in the University archives, and he suspects it might even be twice that old. Henry David Thoreau took "Celestial Navigation" while he was at Harvard, Sadler says...
Many an undergraduate fantisizes about following in the footsteps of Thoreau, Emerson, Eliot, Updike and other Havardian authors, but they are in effect robbed of the opportunity to discuss, in an academic setting, the works of the very predecessors they hope to emulate. Graduating American "intellectuals" who have not debated the relative merits of their own literature is problematic at best. The literature they produce is in danger of being redundant and lifeless, steeped in a foreign tradition and removed from the reality of national life...
Still, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is enjoyable and effective. Many of the problems stem from the script, and the actors and director Carl B.J. Fox do very well with what they are given. On the basis of the production and the humor, it makes the Leverett Old Library worth spending your night...