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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a few exceptions--I've mentioned most of them--my courses didn't take up a large fraction of my time. I didn't feel comfortable being told what to read and when to do it. I never took a music appreciation course, but I spent hours each week listening to orchestral and chamber music with score in hand. I practiced my violin, played sonatas with my classmate Noel Lee '46-'48 and played in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. I spent many happy hours slowly working my way through the novels of Anatole France and the philosophical essays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Learning the Material That Won't Be Tested | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

...Coop has traditionally refunded its members a set fraction of the amount it spends on purchases during the school year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ReCooperate | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...foresee a reasonable return on investment soon. Despite the improvements, Hathaway last year lost $5 million on revenues of $43 million. Many apparel makers have closed U.S. factories and/or shifted manufacturing to low-cost offshore havens. Hathaway, in fact, has a plant in Honduras where workers earn a fraction of the average wage of $7.50 an hour at Waterville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHORT-SHIRTED IN MAINE | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...Thanks in part to the demands of marriage (in 1937 to the historian Douglass Adair Jr.), motherhood and teaching, she stopped publishing but kept on writing. Literary fame meant nothing; her delight was in the solitary pleasure of creation. The 87 poems in Ants on the Melon are a fraction of her oeuvre, which runs into the thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ELEGANT FIZZ BY A POETS' POET | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...that these trust managers were distorting the market in his company but ultimately decided that the best way to beat 'em was to join 'em. Last week shares of a new Class B stock, quickly dubbed Baby Berkshires, went on the market for a mere $1,110 per, a fraction of the mother issue's market value. The Baby B's gained $50 to hit $1,160 the first day and finished at $1,200 on Friday. Whether they'll ever grow up to be like Mama is, well, what markets are all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch, May 20, 1996 | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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