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Top 10 Book List
As a Chicago Tribune reviewer, Walter Harding lists his top 10 favorite books of the year.
Three Distinguished Geneseo Professors
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By 1973, the College had three distinguished professors (from left): University Professor Walter Harding (English) and Distinguished Teaching Professors Richard F. Smith (chemistry) and Robert "Duke" Sells (physics).
By 1973, the College had three distinguished professors (from left): University Professor Walter Harding (English) and Distinguished Teaching Professors Richard F. Smith (chemistry) and Robert "Duke" Sells (physics).
Thoughts on Editing Bulletin 150
A very condensed version of Harding's tale of the Thoreau Society's beginnings, this blurb appeared as the front page article in the 150th Thoreau Society Bulletin. It is a personal but brisk recollection from Harding's perspective, and is a summary…
Thoreau's Professor Has His Say
Walter Harding finds a book review by Thoreau’s old professor, C. Felton. In this 14-page review, Felton mentions an old student, Thoreau, a scholar of talent, but claims that Thoreau was a man of such “pertinacious oddity... that his writings will…
Thoreau's Feminine Foe
Walter Harding quotes a letter Thoreau wrote to Emerson in which Thoreau rejects a marriage proposal from Sophia Foord and states that he has no intention of ever marrying. The rest is a mini biography of Foord’s life.
Thoreau Society of America. Bulletin.
The devoted work which Harding put into his homemade bulletins can now been seen in published volumes, courtesy of the Thoreau Society.