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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Houses had been filled past the brim--doubles turned to triples and quads housed five or six--and temporary housing had been erected on athletic fields. The College's teaching resources had been strained by the largest enrollment in Harvard history, reaching its high water mark at around 5,600 undergraduates when the Class of 1951 came to campus in fall 1947. Some new arrivals even had to sleep temporarily in gyms at the Indoor Athletic Center...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Old College Try | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...1870s but who is as impossible to identify historically as Odysseus or Robin Hood. As one character notes, "The Ballad of John Henry has picked up freight from every work camp, wharf and saloon in this land; its route is wherever men work and live, and now its cars brim with what the men have hoisted aboard, their passions and dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Ballad for All Times | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...Guitar” was filled to the brim with 500-year-old guitars and lyres capitulated to a bean-bag chair music video conclusion. Like rock and roll, folk art is approachable and familiar. But a huge exhibit of objects that could be found in someone’s attic represents quite a risk...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Folk Implosion | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...from his bodyguard, and spends a few minutes chatting with me about what's gone down in his life in the last 24 hours or so. Puffy seems quite composed, given what he's been through lately. His voice is calm, his face placid, his eyes shaded below the brim of a blue baseball cap. He has a two-way pager in his hand and he's firing off messages about who knows what to who knows whom. But when we start to talk he gives me his complete attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rapping With Beat-the-Rap Puffy | 3/18/2001 | See Source »

Barbara Guralnick is leaving her New York City apartment carrying a blue plastic ball that measures 75 in. around, portable CD player and shoulder bag packed to the brim with lotions, washcloths and hair scrunchies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: One Labor-Intensive Job | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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