Word: waldo
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Heaney will give up his position as Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory, a chair he has held since 1984, to become the first Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence...
...that were the case, you could have counted me out long ago. I like studying Walt and Waldo, thank...
Henry David Thoreau went off to live in a cabin he built himself. But while he was there, he studied the classics and complicated literature; he conducted elaborate observations of classified plants, herbs and trees, completed many journals. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said of Thoreau, he knew the exact date when each plant within 30 miles of Concord would blossom. And he remained close to his family and friends. In the woods he became more adult...
Other new members include sophomores Bradley H. Cohen, Michael E. Driscoll, Robert A. Waldo, Brant K. Wong, William Zerhouni and Kristopher J. Thiessen, who is a Crimson editor...
...find inspiration for this first column, I reread our very own Ralph Waldo Emerson on the duties of the "American Scholar." He delivered an address by that name for the Phi Beta Kappa ceremony here at Harvard in 1837. According to Emerson, the responsibility of the academic is "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances...