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...start classes at 8 a.m. for lectures and seminars in four areas-Science and Human Values, Current Economic Problems, Literature and Contemporary Affairs, and the Scientific Age: Dream and Reality. The faculty includes four Dartmouth professors in fields from physics to philosophy. Preparatory reading includes the Book of Job, Thoreau's Walden, Shakespeare's As You Like It, Golding's Lord of the Flies. On the evening agenda: plays, concerts, seminars in international affairs. In short, Dartmouth aims at what most U.S. colleges only dream of: "a sustained, serious intellectual relationship with its alumni...
...also something more than the mere sum of his praise and criticism. He is a throwback to the classic American individualist, a mold which produced Thomas Edison and Thoreau-men with the fresh eye that cannot be done. What Fuller sees excites him with the vision of man's potentialities, and he has made it his mission to help man to realize them. Says he: "Man knows so much and does so little." Last week this crackpot stepped off the plane in London, spouting words the minute his feet touched ground, and headed for a dinner in his honor...
...illustrious ancestor was a woman, Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller, the literary friend of Emerson and discoverer of Thoreau, whose strong-minded individualism presaged Bucky...
...Tittle or George Shearing, but he can, discourse by the hour about Thoreau, Hegel, Kant and Gandhi...
...doubts that religion was intellectually respectable. I revolted against the emotionalism of Negro religion, the shouting and the stamping. I didn't understand it and it embarrassed me." At Morehouse, King searched for "some intellectual basis for a social philosophy." He read and reread Thoreau's essay, Civil Disobedience, concluded that the ministry was the only framework in which he could properly position his growing ideas on social protest...