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Ralph Waldo Emerson becomes topic of new summer institute
From: University Wire
Date: 20021202
Author:Eric Howerton
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(Daily Lobo) (U-WIRE) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In celebration of Ralph
Waldo Emerson's 200th birthday, University of New Mexico Philosophy
Department Chairman Russell Goodman will organize a summer institute
for college professors to discuss the popular author.
Goodman, who has taught courses about Emerson and other American transcendentalists such as Henry David Thoreau, proposed the grant to the National Endowment for the Humanities a year ago and was surprised when it was accepted.
The summer institute, "Ralph Waldo Emerson at 200: Literature, Philosophy, ...
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