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...1800s, the cemetery was known as "Stone's Woods." According to historical documents, the garden was a favorite spot for Harvard students to take walks to escape the stress of academic life...
According to Little, in the 1800s Fresh Pond served as an international supplier of ice for refrigeration. Chunks of ice were cut from the Pond and transported all over the Globe, Little says...
...father's university. It's the new generation of Harvard. Our football teams today are not exactly the equal of the Rose-Bowl-winning squad of 75 years ago. Once a power in college football, the Ivy League has been losing ground ever since its heyday in the late 1800s. The rise in bigtime college athletics elsewhere accelerated Harvard's decline, which today's Division I-AA status attests...
...story of the deaf in America is intimately bound up with ASL and its travails. Traditionally, schooling for the deaf featured attempts, usually unsuccessful, to get them to learn and speak languages they couldn't hear. In the early 1800s, however, American instructors, acknowledging deaf practice, began teaching a language composed entirely of gestures. ASL became the backbone of almost all formal schooling for the deaf. In 1880, however, educators reverted to a philosophy called oralism. Unlike ASL, oralism was committed to English: written, lip-read and spoken...
...otherwise informative article, "In 1800s, Living Was Far from Gracious," (Feb. 5) Gaston De Los Reyes praises President A. Lawrence Lowell for democraticizing Harvard's undergraduate housing policies by building the river houses. Lowell, says Mr. De Los Reyes, was "committed to ending the social chasm of the `Gold Coast' and the College housing shortage...