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...Brion A. Bickerton, a resident of 26 Garden St,said, "I expect it will be quit a fight at theCity Council level. It is pivotal in planningissues as it will be the first in a number ofattempts at demolition...
...Stephen Brion-Meisels, coordinator of Dropout Prevention for Cambridge, said the while city schools have become more racially balanced, issues of economic class stratification still exist...
...friendships I've seen in elementary schools cross race very easily," Brion-Meisels said. "They do not cross class easily...
Gathering in the university's Fogg Museum, 160 past and present fellows toasted a tradition of pure scholarship with bottles of Chateau Haut-Brion '65, saved especially for the occasion. The society that they were commemorating is the creation of longtime (1909-33) Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, who endowed the society with $2 million of his own money ("It took nearly all I had") in the belief that the independent work of great scholars was the soul of a great university. He patterned the society after fellowships offered in England and France. Said Lowell: "Productive scholarship...
...result is disappointingly uneven. In part two (1760-1820), Gordon S. Wood discusses the celebrated 1801 Cane Ridge revival, a bizarre religious event in Kentucky where, according to contemporary accounts, thousands fell into frenzied ecstasies. Wood captures none of its manic exuberance. In part three (1820-1860), David Brion Davis by contrast manages to make the often opaque character of Ralph Waldo Emerson both fascinating and comprehensible. Davis, who won his Pulitzer for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, also offers a splendid essay on the Mormon experience as a paradigm of American dissent: a people at odds with...