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A former hosiery warehouse near the Canton waterfront in Baltimore will be converted to a $3 million residential complex for the elderly by 1994 if developer Frank Scarfield can secure the financing and building permits he needs to move ahead with construction.Baltimore's Planning Commission approved last week two pending City Council bills that would change the zoning and permitted land use of the property at 2108 to 2128 Boston St. so that Mr. Scarfield could construct a 58-unit apartment complex within the shell of the 80-year-old warehouse.

Lecture Remembering Tupac Shakur At 7:30 p.m. today, Afeni Shakur, mother of murdered rapper Tupac Shakur, will deliver a lecture titled "Remember Me: The Living Legacy of Tupac Shakur." The lecture is part of the Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium at the Johns Hopkins University and takes place at Shriver Hall, 3400 N. Charles St. It's free and open to the public, but seating is limited. For more in formation, go to www.jhu.edu/mse.

A lecture scheduled tonight at Western Maryland College by Curtis G. Berkey, a proponent of American Indian civil rights, has been postponed at the request of the speaker. Chris Hart, spokesman for the college, says the lecture will be rescheduled on a date to be announced.

Dance lecture -- The Anne Arundel Community College Cultural Events Committee will present "Dancing on Air" at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in Room 112 of the Humanities Building, 101 College Parkway, Arnold. Part-time faculty member Megan Morse Jans will lead the lecture and a DVD demonstration of aerial dance. Free. 410-777-7021.

In Monday's Carroll County section, the wrong date was published for the Western Maryland College Black History Month lecture "Who Freed the Slaves? Emancipation and the Civil War." Dr. Leslie S. Rowland will present the lecture at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21.+ The Sun regrets the errors.

A brief in yesterday's Maryland section gave the wrong date for a lecture at Loyola College by University of California professor Michael Schudson. The lecture, "What It Means To Be an Informed Citizen," was held last night.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 10/08/98

Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)Emerson was a main practitioner of New England Transcendentalism. His 96-page book "Nature" helped initiate Transcendentalism.In it he answered the questions to his spiritual doubts. His later writings were, in a sense, annexes of "Nature."In his lecture "The American Scholar" he explained what he believed were the duties of a liberated intellectual. It was in essence a lecture against Harvard intelligentsia, although Emerson himself was a Harvard graduate.-- Encyclopedia of LiteraturePub Date: 01/17/99

In Baltimore City Oregon official to discuss benefits of urban parks The benefits of urban parks will be discussed by Charles Jordan, parks and recreation director of Portland, Ore., in a lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday at Evergreen House, 4545 N. Charles St. Jordan's talk, "Building Communities through Parks, People and Programs," is the third annual Garrett Lecture on Urban Issues, commemorating the interest of the Garrett family - original owners of...

Peter Walsh, Baltimore artist, critic and curator, will lecture on the state of contemporary art in Baltimore at 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at Halcyon Gallery, 909 Fell St.Walsh has just received a $20,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Called "Subversive Acts: Baltimore Aesthetics and the Role of Criticism in Tiny Town," his lecture will draw on Walsh's knowledge of the local art scene and on the essay he wrote for a show he curated at Artscape 1992.The lecture will be free and open to the public.