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...enjoyed Harvard," Sheppe concludes about his stay here. "But I don't think I could stay here for another year. Four years in these red-brick Georgian rabbit hatches can really socialize you, make you depend too much on the community for stimulation. I think we all need some time alone, to allow us to do some inward thinking about goals and projects...
Even at noon, the small brick ranch house was strangely quiet and dimly lit. Out of the silence, a soft voice offered a greeting. Jimmy Carter looked unchanged from the White House days, although perhaps a bit less imposing in heavy blue jeans, black boots and a long-sleeved flannel shirt. He had been working on his memoirs since before dawn, he said. As he sat in an easy chair, smiling warmly, he spoke with that familiar instructive manner, still wary and somehow aloof, his gentle mien always at odds with the ambition and defiance that surely cooked inside...
Last winter, as the final tenants moved out of a Harvard-owned building at 7 Sumner Rd., one said "it's no use fighting Harvard. They just wear you down and in the end they win." The once-full brick apartment-house is now full of Graduate School of Design offices...
...renowned green stuff, which is as much a part of Harvard tradition as brick walls and Harvard Yard, is structurally damaging to building concrete, and costs the University upwards of $50,000 a year in trimming fees, according to Associate Dean of the College Martha Coburn...
This was the Semitic Museum's second official opening. And if the squat brick building had its own voice, it might well ask why the University failed to honor the promise it made in 1903 to maintain the museum as a scholarly and public institution. The answers would be neither happy nor simple...