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...Apathy League was organized; nobody came to the meetings. Robert Frost "said" his poems in Sanders Theatre, and Mrs. Roosevelt told us about the United Nations. The Lowell House Musical Society produced Handel's opera, Acis and Galatea as well as Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell. A vigorous Brattle Theatre Company presented many plays...
...Robert Frost wrote a poem called "Out, Out -" in which a boy using a buzz saw to cut stove wood is momentarily careless and cuts his own hand off, and then dies of shock. The others in the farmyard are stunned. But Frost ends with an interesting chill: "And they, since they/Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs...
...produce energy by fusing light atomic nuclei, mainly hydrogen and helium, into heavier ones. When the hydrogen and helium run low, old stars will sputter out without any new ones to take their place, and the universe will gradually fade to black. Such were the gloomy alternatives that Robert Frost wrote about after being briefed on the theory of the cosmic endgame by the astronomer Harlow Shapley...
...There problems began right from the start. Only one year into the club's existence, members were already speaking of it disparagingly, and in particular the product of the official pudding maker, Mrs. Frost. According to the constitution, every Saturday, two "providers" were to carry a pot of Hasty Pudding to the meeting. Members were able to solve this pressing issue quickly by substituting Mrs. Rebecca Kidder's pudding, which was much more popular. According to the "Thirteenth catalogue and A History of the Hasty Pudding," a late 19th century account of the club's past, Kidder (or Mother, Madame...
Soon after Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel was founded in 1944, William Lee Frost '47, one of its first members, wrote that he hoped the campus' primary Jewish organization would become "neither Zionist nor anti-Zionist, neither Orthodox nor Reform...