Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early in the afternoon of any Saturday when the Harvard football team is playing a home game, a procession of Harvard administrators and secretaries begins to wind its way from 60 Boylston Street across the river to the stadium at Soldiers Field. The Athletic Department staff leaves its enclave by Kirkland House en masse, to watch these contests. These are the administrators who take care of all the bureaucratic details of running a full-scale athletic program, so in a sense the games are the culmination of all their efforts...
...within 60 Boylston street itself, the interaction between administrators and administered is missing the anonymity of a real bureaucracy. Many of the people who work there are former athletes themselves--just "a bunch of overgrown football players," as Omar Fleischaker '78, a manager of the football team, says. "You always sit down and talk about sports for ten minutes or so before you even think about getting down to business...
...nature of the administrative work itself doesn't really permit impersonality. The department caters to students and it would be impossible to reduce the players to the numbers and statistics of the Registrar's office. Francis Toland, the department's business manager, describes Boylston street as "a continual flow of bodies," students with questions and problems that have to be dealt with before the teams can begin to play...
...surgeons were the ones who could cut, hack and saw most rapidly, aided by the strongest assistants to hold the patient down. Herbs and plants were extensively used in treatment. Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay prescribed a paste of wood lice, while Cotton Mather-who together with Zabdiel Boylston brought inoculation to the colonies in 1721 to prevent serious cases of smallpox-condemned the use by Boston physicians of "Leaden Bullets," to be swallowed for "that miserable Distemper which they called the Twisting of the Guts." By the early 18th century, there were only two drugs known...
Winner Take All. New musical at the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston St. in Boston., through July 24. Performances Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2 p.m. Tickets...