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...well worth it. Not only is the library unique for possessing 10 small study rooms lining two winding staircases, but it is also a standing monument to Harvard history. Sketches and photographs of Harvard presidents from Eliot to Conant hang in one study room. An original sketch of Walden Pond by Thoreau’s hand hangs on the wall of another. The photographs of all of Kirkland’s past House masters line the staircases. Kirkland’s selection of books is also exquisite, with the Loeb Greek and Latin classics in one room, more exotic Chinese...
...time we finish high school, most of us know Henry David Thoreau as "the eccentric who went into the wild to live monastically," as Robert Sullivan puts it--an image that Sullivan, author of the rodent history Rats, says is entirely wrong. The man who penned Walden and Civil Disobedience was eminently sociable, quite funny and more interested in social critique than in actually persuading people to shun society and live in a shack in the woods. Walden was "written to inspire modern citizens to break out from the lockstep of culture and in so doing make a new connection...
...Primack and Miller-Rushing had observed that the plants around Walden Pond were producing flowers on average more than a week earlier than they were in Thoreau’s time, when temperatures were 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit lower...
...Ruhfel, the other graduate student, noted that the exceptionally long span of the Walden Pond data is what allowed them to reach such striking conclusions...
...Davis said that the study would have implications that go far beyond Walden Pond. The patterning of species loss at Walden seems to extend from one habitat type to another, from wetlands to deciduous forests, he said...