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...varsity’s victory was the Crimson’s 13th-consecutive win over Northeastern for the Smith Cup and was the program’s 19th win in the cup’s 22-year existence...
...come a long way from the classical list of earth, wind, water and fire. Modern elements, with all their complexities, require a chart whose rows and columns reflect their properties and how they interact with one another. In the 19th century, several scientists worked on developing a periodic table that arranged the elements according to their atomic weight. It is Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Mendeleev, however, who is credited with developing the first real table in 1869. He organized the 63 then known elements into groups with similar properties and left some spaces blank for those whose existence he could...
...brink of the 19th century, in the Scottish town of Dumfries, the poet Robert Burns wrote: “the honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor / Is king o’ men for a’ that.” Two centuries later, and about 100 miles away in St Andrews, poet and musician Don Paterson is striving for the same down-to-earth honesty in his fifth volume of poetry, “Rain.” In this new collection, Paterson amasses popular images of sentimentality and reimagines them amid the hectic cacophony...
...there are limits to this "separate but equal" approach. The first is that women’s clubs will find it difficult to compensate for their male counterparts’ 219-year head start. The opportunities for acquiring wealth and real estate that existed in the late 19th century—when the last of the eight surviving men’s clubs was founded—have vanished with a bygone era. Properties like those owned by the male clubs just don’t come on the market any more, and to the extent they do, the cost...
...other gallery, Milo Fay’s series, “If a Poet Knows More,” displays lyrical photographs of horses made using an outdated 19th-century process in which iron acts as the light-sensitive agent, creating a delicate tonal range. Meanwhile, Japanese-born artist Atsuko Ito’s split-screen video documentary centering on conductor Florencia Gonzáles reflects the artist’s own training at the Berklee College of Music prior to enrolling at the SMFA...