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...says.Moving off campus with her husband freed Karmel from many of the social restraints imposed by the house mothers and her parents.“Whatever my husband and I decided, that’s what we did—I didn’t have to ask my parents,” she said.However, Karmel’s move was within the confines of her generation. “You were passed from your father’s care to your husband’s care,” she said. DEFYING CONVENTIONSAlthough only a handful of women entered...
...telescope and spent hours looking at the stars.”Ostriker said that his most memorable class was not a science course, but a class on poetry with modernist poet Archibald MacLeish. He said he enjoyed the chance to figure out what questions to ask about the poems, a challenge he didn’t find in his science classes.In addition to his studies, Ostriker said he had “quite a bit of fun” in college, and Socolow remembered that empty vodka bottles lined the mantle in the room he shared with Ostriker and Robert...
...Crocker have studied abroad together for a semester in St. Andrew’s, Scotland, and spent three long days crabbing and taught themselves how to shuck crabs. And, the two claim they make a fierce Beirut team. Mims has not one but two engagement rings. When Crocker asked for her parents’ permission over the summer, they told him to ask them again in a month, at which point he gave her a family heirloom ring. After asking her parents again and receiving their blessing, Crocker proposed—with another ring—on a bench across...
...last May, his plan did not unfold exactly the way he intended. On their first date their freshman year, Rinehart, a religion concentrator from Northfield, Minn., took Nightingale, a history and literature concentrator from St. Louis, Mo., to the Bunker Hill Monument. So when he decided to ask Nightingale to marry him, that monument seemed like the logical choice for location. This time around, Rinehart decided to take the bus instead of the subway in order to keep the proposal a surprise. After losing the monument from their sight on a walk that quickly became painful for Nightingale...
...society Phi Beta Kappa graduates at the Signet Society, an official from the Eisenhower administration had been recruited to give the after-dinner speech. He addressed the importance of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as a crucial component of national defense.Marglin said he stood up to ask a question.“Why does everything we do for a good reason have to be in the name of defense?”According to Marglin, the official was taken aback.Though the remarks may have presaged his later stances, Marglin hardly emerged from Harvard a radical?...