Tagged: Walden

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 #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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