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...editors of Britain's highbrow Architectural Review have now found a fresh distinction for him: give or take a few details, Thoreau did a startlingly good job of anticipating the modern house. With a layout of some recent U.S. designs, Architectural Review ran a snatch from Walden...
...perhaps all this was not as modern as the Architectural Review thought. To U.S. Thoreau fans, it all sounded a good deal like the cabin on Walden Pond, enlarged in furniture and company...
Saturdays open up larger vistas: you can follow Paul Revere's routh around Concord and Lexington, with a side trip to the "rude bridge that arched the food." Or you can drop in on the domain of Henry D. Thoreau, 1837, at Walden Pond and stay for a drip. Or, two bucks will get you a Youth Hostel Card that will make a weekend trip to Gloucester or the Cape a cinch...
Regardless of what people are told, there will always be those who decide that Walden Pond is a good place for a picnic. These people, impressed by the sylvan mutterings of Thoreau, will meet many, many more just like themselves at the old cabin site, and will find pleasant, quiet picnicking a difficult task indeed...
...spirited but good-natured debate with Burrhus F. Skinner's '31, professors of Psychology, Aiken attacked Skinner's recent noval "Walden Two" for ". . . distracting people from doing something about the present by proposing a hypothetical future." The debate, sponsored by the Student Association for Natural and Social Sciences, took place before a capacity crowd in Harvard Hall...