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...identified them by. The they’d cut their hair, or exuded a new, vaguely Continental languor, or had become raconteurs. In their absence, we had bought books at the Coop and trudged up Garden Street to the Quad and had slept through lectures in Sever or Emerson??had done, in short, the same things Harvard students have been doing for generations. They hadn’t. It marked them...
Archie also believed in the sanctity of the individual. It was not for nothing that Emerson??s “Self-Reliance” was the one essay he wanted all freshmen to read. He had no patience for those, students and College administrators alike, who preached that you were what you were and you should not let Harvard change you. For Archie the opportunity to change at Harvard was essential to Harvard’s mission. Here you were in a place where you could be what you wanted to be, where you could lose your history...
...essays included in the pamphlet distributed to entering first-years by the Freshmen Dean’s Office is Emerson??s “Self-Reliance.” The message: take heed and trust thyselves; against the influence of others, rely on and cultivate your own mind. While this you-can-do-it-if-you-believe-in-yourself attitude might be valuable advice for first-years—suddenly small fish in a very big pond (Want to play hockey? So what if these girls are Olympians? You too can give it a shot...
Trailing by 53-30 at halftime, Mercer came storming out of the locker room, led by forward Scott Emerson??who had a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds—and guard Clarence Baker, who added 17 points...
Trailing by 53-30 at halftime, Mercer came storming out of the locker room, led by forward Scott Emerson??-who had a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds—-and guard Clarence Baker, who added 17 points...