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Mar 7, 2019

Harvard Baccalaureate Address of President Nathan M. Pusey

Why is it that so many people now fear to believe anything? — Baccalaureate Address of President Nathan M. Pusey to the Class of 1960 of Harvard college, given at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard on Sunday afternoon, June 12, 1960. Recently I had occasion to scan the report of the acting chairman of the committee which admitted your class to Harvard…

Education

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Harvard Baccalaureate Address of President Nathan M. Pusey
Harvard Baccalaureate Address of President Nathan M. Pusey
Education

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Feb 1, 2019

The Present Age

Søren Kierkegaard — The present age is one of understanding, of reflection, devoid of passion, an age which flies into enthusiasm for a moment only to decline back into indolence. . . Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so deliberately, that…

Politics

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The Present Age
The Present Age
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Feb 1, 2019

“Boats Against the Current”: Mortality and the Myth of Renewal in The Great Gatsby

By Jeffrey Steinbrink F. Scott Fitzgerald’s recreations of the Jazz Age are convincing not only because they draw upon his experiences as a charter member of the Lost Generation but also because they convey so pervasively a sense of the fundamental paradox which gave the Age its poignancy. In a…

Literature

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“Boats Against the Current”: Mortality and the Myth of Renewal in The Great Gatsby
“Boats Against the Current”: Mortality and the Myth of Renewal in The Great Gatsby
Literature

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Dec 12, 2018

Only A God Can Save Us

Martin Heidegger Interview — Philosophy will be unable to effect any immediate change in the current state of the world. This is true not only of philosophy but of all purely human reflection and endeavors. Only a god can save us. Introduction Although Heidegger was one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century, few…

Philosophy

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Only A God Can Save Us
Only A God Can Save Us
Philosophy

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Nov 26, 2018

The Edge of the West

But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward world. Inward they turned upon the soul, especially when the still mild hours of eve came on; then, memory shot her crystals as the clear ice most forms of noiseless twilights.

Photography

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The Edge of the West
The Edge of the West
Photography

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