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...noticed. Yes, I heard about the dedication of the women's gate on the 25th anniversary of permitting women to live in Harvard Yard. I saw the glossy booklet with pictures of smiling, "diverse" women (including, of course, the one tenured black female professor) against backgrounds of Harvard brick. I noticed the warm support of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 for the Undergraduate Council bill that would equalize men's and women's diplomas by removing references to Radcliffe. And I paid hopeful attention when the Dean declared that the time of using the existence of Radcliffe...
...easy to finally enter the Info Center feeling no wiser and certainly no prouder of this University as a result of the interactive tour. The interior doesn't help. Decked out in red-brick and Harvard chairs, the center boasts a cubicle fondly described as a "reading room," a projection screen and computer kiosk of sorts. The reading room material is mostly about the history of Harvard and its sidekick, Radcliffe the Girl Wonder. The movies boast such gripping titles as "Harvard: A Video Portrait" and "Harvard: An International Community...
...clapboard, University Hall of stone, and Widener's steps of granite. Grass defines the Yard and the Quad, and moss creeps through the cracks of the sidewalk. Asphalt covers all the streets, and white-washed something-or-other coats William James. But throughout, there is a sense of brick. It is Harvard's theme, perhaps lifted from Oxford or Cambridge, and made into further kitsch by scores of Ivy-admiring, mid-western schools. This continuity--not of style or design, but of material--conveys a sense of uniformity that is comforting. But this uniformity is ultimately false and imposed...
...bricks themselves cannot be made from the region's soil, for unlike fertile Virginia, the Massachusetts colonists found themselves richer in the harbor than the field. Similarly, Hillel and St. Paul's though superficially dedicated to such kin ventures as morality and God, differ on details like whether Christ is the messiah. Similar disagreements between The Crimson and Mass. Hall, and the Fly and Lampoon, need not be explicated. The point is this: urban planning can only do so much to make a community look and feel like one community. The rouge monotony that serves as Cambridge's controlling architectural...
Making sense of the world is no easy task. Out of our "constellations of memory" (stolen from Sartre), we graft purpose onto an acted past, we draw narratives commemorating that which we later feel is significant, we weave quilts of determination out of a randomized existence, and we build brick cities to connect everyone with everything and everything to a purpose. We want to make sense of the lived environment and often we do--too often. For if it is possible to do so from marble. Why we choose one over the other is a matter of preference, economy, geography...