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DeFries, Maryann Harring and Jane Bliss swept the 800-meter event, while Leslie Cooper and Mary Barrett captured first and second in the 1500-meter event Lois Brommer easily won the steeple-chase, covering the 3000-meters...
...Sweet communions," she called those first nights just after her marriage. "Oh joy! Oh! Bliss unutterable." Also, "a little Heaven just after dinner." And on the morning she got pregnant in May 1879, "a very happy few minutes of love in our room." This was bright-eyed Mabel Loomis Todd, 22, of Washington, who played the piano and painted water-colors and confided to her diary about her young husband David. When David Todd moved to Amherst to teach astronomy, Mabel began flirting with one of the students, Ned Dickinson. She then took up with his unhappily married father Austin...
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to media, Bok, Watt, the corporation and the Faculty Council meet in secret session. While welcoming a group of dignitaries to the Yard, Bok is heard to murmur, "And you think you're just sightseeing. Well, ignorance is bliss...
...secrets of glory open." As the angel begins to play a heavenly viol, an Ondes Martenot sounds a deceptively ingenuous melody. At once oddly angular but celestially serene, it floats above a soft C major chord in the strings and a wordless chorus. The moment is one of beatific bliss, a close approximation of what one imagines the music of the spheres to sound like...
Other Harvard students finishing were seniors Margaret Waters in 3:04:48, Mike Smart in 3:12:30, Jane Hunnewell in 3:41:00 and Jane Bliss in 3:28:00. Two Winthrop House tutors finished: Page Chamberlain in 2:54:58 and Rodney Pearson...