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With several hundred proud parents and siblings in attendance, a fifteen-minute address by a Freeman Dyson, a physicist and noted author highlighted the society's 200th annual Commencement-time gathering. Dyson's remarks, which drew on the writings of William Blake and of 17th century author Richard Hakluyt, concerned man's tradition of exploration and the implications of that tradition for the use of space...
Harvard's community was and is so diverse, soeclectic, that I hesitate to describe my ownreminiscences because they may not berepresentative. But I'll bet many of them were.These were, then, the passionate exceptions to ourquiet four years. They became the memories. BertMessenbaugh, Bob Freeman, Larry Noitou, WalterGoulke and many others had an awesome floatingpoker game with stakes high enough to cover ayear's tuition...
...sixteenth century. Locked in the Tower of London is Colonel Fairfax (Garland Withers), condemned to death as a result of a jealous relative's evil machinations. Everyone loves Fairfax, particularly Sergeant Meryll (Douglas Freeman) of the Tower yeomen and Meryll's daughter Phoebe (Lisa Zeidenberg). Maneuvering on their own, they seek to free the condemned man--Meryll in appreciation of Fairfax's past heroism, Phoebe in anticipation of the captive's predicted amours...
...storybook caricature of lovestruck Phoebe, and bright eyes and rich voice provide the elements of a successful performance. Withers as Fairfax enters with the melancholy appropriate for a man facing execution, but the low-key colonel never seems to realize that his character continues to live in subsequent scenes. Freeman, in spite of an unextraordinary voice, brings off the role of Meryll with genuine likability...
When Harvard Professor of Philosophy George H. Palmer went to Wellesley College for a visit in 1887, he fell in love with his future bride, Wellesley President Alice Freeman...