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...Bryn Mawr was pioneering in higher education for women, Harvard’s President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, doubted whether women’s “natural mental capacities” were up to the challenge. Co-education was, of course, unthinkable, even when bright young Bostonian women were pounding on the doors. Eliot could barely imagine the consequences of trying “…to teach together sets of persons, who like young men and young women, differ widely in regard to sensibility, quickness, docility, and conscientiousness.” Lesser institutions, like Boston...
According to an initial police report, two assailants outside the restaurant on JFK Street confronted the 45-year-old Bostonian in the early morning hours of July 2. One of the assailants stabbed the alleged victim in his groin with a switchblade knife before fleeing the area via the Harvard T Station...
Perhaps I ought to have been unfazed by Irish wetness. I've (more or less) survived Bostonian weather for the past two years, after all. And I'm intimately familiar with decidedly aquatic environs, one might say, given the many hours I've spent in Blodgett Pool for water polo practice...
...Kennedy '54-'56, I clearly confuse Mr. Bartenstein, and that is a pity for he might discover that despite my accent I might have something worthwhile to say. My late colleague Porter Professor Emeritus Sydney J. Freedberg, among our most distinguished of art historians and a native Bostonian, was asked where he got his plumy accent. He replied, “pure affectation.” I admired his dismissal of an impertinent inquiry, but I acquired my tongue the old fashioned way: I was born with it. Transfers to Purdue, Mr. Bartenstein, I hear are not too hard...
...said the professor, Mary Malloy. “He’s a rapist and a murderer—and he’s a fascinating guy.” Malloy told an audience of about 30 at a talk at the museum yesterday that the 19th-century Bostonian adventurer had preceded Lewis and Clark as the owner of several Native American basketry hats on exhibit at the Peabody. The distinctive conical woven hats were brought back as souvenirs of the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Columbia River. Debate over their provenance is not old hat. Malloy said that...