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...aqueduct from Owens Valley. The voters overwhelmingly approved a bond issue to pay for it. In 1913 the aqueduct was completed, spilled its water into the "vast stubble field" of the San Fernando Valley*-and to ensure the promise that the water would reach Los Angeles, the little city annexed the valley. In the years that followed, the Owens Valley dried out, San Fernando bloomed, and Los Angeles, which still gets 69% of its water from the aqueduct, crept beyond its boundaries like a flood tide, bringing into its fold other nearby cities, which had to annex themselves...
...Rubens' Flight Into Egypt, Flemish Dierick Bouts' The Annunciation and outstanding canvases by Corot, Degas, Boucher, Guardi, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Van Dyck, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Eventually Gulbenkian made the same offer he had made London: all the pictures free forever-if the gallery built a special Gulbenkian annex to house them. With regret the National Gallery refused, stuck grimly to the rule that its permanent works be displayed by schools and periods, not by collectors...
...Several Annex deans have suggested that there may be undue duplication in operating separate registrar's offices and records for Harvard and Radcliffe, and that this may be an area for merger in the future...
Radcliffe administrators, moreover, are quick to point out the advantages to Annex students of even the limited amount of independence which the sister school still maintains. The most obvious is the smaller size of Radcliffe which permits a greater degree of warmth and friendliness between students and administrators than can exist in an institution the size of Harvard...
...academic year, the Annex governing board recommended joint exams but the students' over-whelming vote against it caused the proposal to be dropped. In her annual report for that year, Mildred P. Sherman, then Dean of the College, wrote: "Seldom has such articulate vigor been displayed at Radcliffe as when the students fought for their honor system and their independence...