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...then of course, there are the artists. One can hardly imagine that Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, T.S. Eliot ’10 and e.e. cummings ’15 got through their time here without at least a few drug indulgences themselves. Theatricals, too, have their own sordid history—especially the Hasty Pudding kind. Most will remember that a couple of years ago, two Pudding producers were charged with embezzlement of over $200,000 (they learned it from Enron, not Harvard, we swear), a large portion of which apparently went to support a producer?...
...Annenberg and Lamont of deans and famous faculty, the very names of the River Houses and Yard dorms are testaments to male alums and presidents. First-years eagerly search databases of dorm rooms to discover if they have been privileged enough to sleep in the same room as Ralph Waldo Emerson (Hollis 5), John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Weld 32) or Bill Gates (Wigglesworth...
Harvard’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet-in-Residence is one of the most stellar attractions the University counts among its rich wellspring of resources. The 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature doesn’t restrain himself to the poetry for which he won the prize; Heaney counts a definitive translation of Beowulf, over ten collections of radiant verse and several collections of critical essays among his impressively voluminous works...
After Heaney resigned his teaching position in 1996, then-College President Neil Rudenstine renewed the Ralph Waldo Emerson position in order to preserve a place for Heaney in the bastion of American academia...
Leland has a weakness for phrasemaking and surplus rhetoric but a real gift for connecting centuries-old developments in American life to the endlessly evolving postures we call "hip." In the sensual ecstasies of Walt Whitman and the individualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson he finds hip's literary underpinnings. He maps the spiritual connections between the bleak machismo of West Coast--detective fiction and the desperado postures of L.A. gangsta rap. He points out the lines that connect hip-hop, with its audience of white suburban boys, to 19th century minstrel shows, in which whites in blackface strutted racial clich?...