Word: foundedness
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Though Mt. Auburn Cemetery doesn’t often make the top list of haunted places in Massachusetts, the final resting place of local luminaries still makes it a great, if slightly tame, Halloween destination. Located just two miles west of Harvard Square, Mt. Auburn Cemetery claims on its website...
One more way the ultra-rich are not like the rest of us: they can use their megabucks not only to do good, but to secure global, intergenerational fame at the same time. We remember Alfred Nobel much more for the prestigious prizes endowed by his estate than for his...
The common objection is that student choice will digress into a mindless pursuit of an easy A. This claim is ill-founded. Students already seek out easy core classes, and lower workloads do not necessarily translate into inferior classes. An extra chapter of reading or a problem set per week...
DIED. Wang Guangmei, 85, elegant, outspoken former First Lady of China who was jailed during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. After a falling-out with Mao Zedong, Wang's husband, President Liu Shaoqi, was labeled the country's "No. 1 Capitalist Roader," while the sophisticated, well-educated Wang was accused...
In the third century A.D., the Chinese scholar and musician Ruan Ji began a 60-day drinking binge. Ji got smashed every day to avoid serving in a corrupt government, and wrote music like “Wine Madness,” which in some versions has a final coda...