Tagged: Thoreau

Analects of the Core #161

October 28, 2011 at 9:34 am

In view of Prof. Fred Kleiner’s lecture this Tuesday on the art and politics of the Greek Acropolis, this week’s analects all concern the Athenian Parthenon. The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. – Henry David Thoreau

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Photos from Core at Walden

May 3, 2011 at 11:04 am

Core took a trip to Walden Pond this past Saturday, April 30th. After stopping for lunch at the famous Concord Cheese Shop, the group took a walk around the pond and pondered Thoreau’s literary and philosophical legacy. It was a fine spring day for it. L-R: Nora Spalholz, Julia Sinitsky, Sarah Schneider, Cara Papakyrikos, Prof. [...]

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Analects of the Core #108

March 31, 2011 at 9:27 am

Here lies the body of this world, Whose soul alas to hell is hurled. This golden youth long since was past, Its silver manhood went as fast, An iron age drew on at last; ‘Tis vain its character to tell, The several fates which it befell, What year it died, when ’twill arise, We only [...]

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Analects of the Core #80

February 11, 2011 at 2:24 pm

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. – Henry David Thoreau, from “Where I Lived and What I Lived For” in Walden, which book students will be reading this spring in CC202: From the Enlightenment to Modernity.

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Analects of the Core #79

February 10, 2011 at 2:21 pm

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau, from the Conclusion to Walden, which book students will be reading this [...]

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Analects of the Core #77

February 8, 2011 at 12:20 pm

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau, in “Where I Lived and What I Lived For” from Walden, which book students will be reading this spring in CC202: From the Enlightenment to Modernity.

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