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...Utopia of Gilbert and Sullivan is a far cry from Sir Thomas More’s 16th century creation, and yet they are strangely similar. More wrote of an island nation so perfect that it became an absurdity in and of itself. And at the beginning of Utopia, Ltd., Gilbert and Sullivan’s Utopia is not quite at that stage, but aspires to achieve the glory and perfection of that most glorious and perfect nation: England. It is the story of that quest that is the two-hours’ traffic of the Agassiz stage, in this semester?...
Harvard will continue down the road to its 16th Ivy title in 20 years when the Crimson heads south to take on Penn and Princeton next weekend...
...That is Emerson's point in his tribute to Montaigne, the magnificently sane 16th-century Frenchman who invented the modern essay and who managed to live an intelligent, humane life in the midst of a France tearing itself limb from limb in half a century of religious civil...
...opening paragraph, we did a quick Internet search. Turns out Canaletto had been dead for eight years when the cornerstone was laid for Somerset House. He had actually painted an earlier Somerset House, no slouch in the aesthetic department but not quite the graceful building that rose on its 16th century ruins. And the newer one itself has been altered substantially by subsequent architects and planners. See, you can improve on perfection...
...Harvard's NCAA qualifiers teamed up to swim the medley relays. Most remarkable was the Crimson's 16th-place finish in the 400 medley. After tying for 16th place in preliminaries with Penn State, the team of Im, Grant, Egan, and Cole dropped 1.5 seconds to win the swim-off and advance to finals that night. The same team also placed 19th in the 200 freestyle relay...