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...They have a lot to make up for, like the way they purchased land,” said Chu, pointing to one of the most frequent criticisms of Harvard’s presence in the neighborhood. “That’s something that people mention all the time...
...catch a clubby guy, or because I have a date rape fantasy. I don’t go because I’m a classist, or because I’m particularly preppy—I may be both of those things, but that is not why I pay frequent visits to many a Mount Auburn St. mansion. I go because, on a Saturday night, there is more appeal in spending time in spacious lounges with people I’m likely to know than in an unfamiliar sweaty dorm room in some shady corner of campus...
Convenient transportation will be essential to making classes in Allston feasible. As we have argued before, the shuttles between Allston, the river Houses, and the Yard need to be frequent, fast, stop in convenient locations, and run all day long. These shuttles will serve a dual role: connecting Allston Houses to the Cambridge campus and connecting undergraduates in Cambridge to the Allston campus to get students to their afternoon sections, seminars, and labs that are being planned in Allston. If transportationin either direction—by shuttle, foot, or bike—is inconvenient, the Allston campus will suffer...
...that included well-known cultural figures. Writers and modern-art patrons Leo Stein and his sister Gertrude, Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, portraitist John Singer Sargent, painter John La Farge, novelist Edith Wharton and British Gothic writer Vernon Lee (the pseudonym of Violet Paget, whom novelist Henry James, himself a frequent visitor to Italy, called "the most intelligent person in Florence") all clustered in the Tuscan town...
Under previous administrations, the call for sacrifice served as more than just a compelling political tactic; it was also the hallmark of successful policy. Kennedy’s frequent references to collective sacrifice, for instance, were matched with a substantive commitment to national priorities, as well as a candid appraisal of what we’d have to give up in order to make endeavors like the Apollo program successful. Under FDR’s leadership in World War II, we agreed to ration our consumption of gas, shoes, and coffee, and our national wealth was used to protect...