Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...breaking glass ceilings-they confronted brick walls," Rawlins said...
Harvard needed this celebration. We needed the opportunity to create a concrete (or, in this case, brick, stone and iron) memorial to the trailblazers of the Class of 1976, a memorial which also anticipates a renewed effort on the part of the College to strengthen the role of women. The gate dedicated Saturday now boasts two plaques, one recognizing the anniversary 25 years ago, when women first moved into the Yard, and the other quoting the seventeenth-century poet, Anne Dudley Bradstreet: "I came into this country, where I found a new world and new manners at which my heart...
...Helen Vendler took turns sharing their thoughts on the day and the dedication. Rudenstine clearly placed the significance of the event in Harvard's history. Rawlins highlighted the difference in the position of women at Harvard in 1976 and now in 1997: "We're breaking glass ceilings. They confronted brick walls." Brick walls indeed: The libraries were closed to female students until the late '60s-and even then there were no bath-M. Landers 77, Undergraduate Council President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 and Porter University Professor Helen Vendler took turns sharing their thoughts on the day and the dedication. Rudenstine...
...total of 1.1 million souls. Male souls always, for the Promise Keepers are intent on carving God's masculine face back onto the spiritual tableau where they believe the model of divine fatherhood has eroded. The seven-year-old organization boasts annual revenues of $87 million, a two-story brick headquarters in Denver and 360 paid staff members, and it is out to retake male responsibility--and re-establish male leadership--in a country that it sees as badly detoured from a godly and natural course, falling into the snares of poverty, illegitimacy, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency and disease because...
Last year, the College began allowing student groups to poster on the brick walls of the gate, but not on the metal grating...