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...applied for an internship at NYC2012, the organization bidding for a New York Olympic Games in 2012. With nothing but camp on my resume, I got a job working for the staff writer. Sitting at my desk on the 34th floor, I overlook the World Trade Center site as I write newsletter articles and web updates, and research venues and sports history...
Another encounter with the ordinary objects of an eminent person caught me by surprise last fall back at school. Julia Child, whose kitchen, as it happens, is now exhibited one floor above my summer office, had donated her cookbook collection to Schlesinger Library when she moved out of Cambridge. But I did not know that, and when I opened a copy of the New York Times Cookbook in a remote Schlesinger carrel and saw her name in ballpoint script written on the inside cover, my mind was sent scampering back to younger days when I watched her TV shows...
During the second half of the class, Billings leads his students to a ten-foot strip of paper extending across the floor. Together—some students making calculations on the boards, others measuring lengths on the paper—the students transform the strip into a line of numbers and their squares. They will have to raise points on the number line to their third and fourth powers for homework...
Since last week, the third floor has been closed, inconveniencing Harvard students and other researchers. Unlike many Harvard libraries, Schlesinger is open to all visitors...
Sniffin-Marinoff said they expected to reopen the third floor by late August, but that she “would not be surprised if it reopens earlier.” Until then, she said most of the materials on the third floor are not rare and can be found in other campus libraries...