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Young women in doorways of neat and messy dorm rooms, portrait

College move-in day: What would Henry David Thoreau say?

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

Columnist Danny Heitman compares the relative luxuries of his daughter’s LSU college dorm room to what famed author Henry David Thoreau experienced at Harvard in the 1830s.

This entry was posted in The Individual and Society and tagged Culture & Society, Historic Figures, History, Opinion on August 1, 2016 by Anita Hacker.

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