Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dickinsons "were looking to buy prestige in Boston...Joanne [Dickinson] posed the interests [sic] bluntly, `Charles and I need an identity. We can not very well say we are philanthropists at cocktail parties. We want to be affiliated with Harvard, and we want to invest in something stimulating and established...
...from a 1988 memo to Kennedy School Dean GRAHAM T. ALLISON '62, discussing a proposed deal to offer Charles and Joanne Dickinson Officer of the University status in exchange for a $250,000 grant...
...were only Balzac and Zola and not Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka. The idea that because we live in a large and varied country we therefore ought to write the sweeping, panoramic novel is like arguing that our poets all ought to be like Walt Whitman rather than Emily Dickinson...
...Crimson (14-9 overall, 6-3 Ivy) lost to Farleigh Dickinson (32-8) in four sets, 14-16, 15-10, 16-14, 15-11, in the title match last night...
Harvard beat Brown and Boston College earlier this season, but lost to Hartford, Farleigh Dickinson and Yale. Since the loss to the Elis two weeks ago, the Crimson has rolled off four straight Ivy League victories and clambered into a second-place tie with Yale in the Ivy standings...