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...southwestern France in 1940 had not decided to investigate an opening revealed by a fallen tree. Soon Abbe Henri Breuil, a pioneer in the study of Paleolithic cave art, arrived to inspect their extraordinary find. He theorized that Lascaux's broad galleries might indicate a magical or religious function for the drawings; Lascaux became known as the "Sistine Chapel of prehistory," and people clamored to see it. After the war, the La Rochefoucauld family, which owned the property, authorized work to enlarge the entrance, shunt off the water that had once cascaded through the cave and install steps and concrete...
...career, even in The Deer Hunter days, when she was a certifiable knockout. Frankel thinks one of the reasons Streep made a big popcorny movie like Prada is that with three daughters, she's critically aware of the well-patrolled borders of traditional beauty and the Minutemen-like function performed by the fashion magazines...
...opinions on the Overseers’ visiting committees. As Morton and Phyllis Keller describe in their book “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” Buck’s findings were far from promising: “complete indifference.... The function has sunk to so low a repute that few believe anything can be done with the device...
...working group that convened over the past year sought primarily to determine how the Board could, in the words of overseer Paul A. Buttenwieser ’60, “make its oversight function more efficient, more useful, and more timely...
...signing onto the peer-advising system, Rinere’s trials were not over yet.SELECTION BIAS?Rinere and the SAB launched a Peer Advising Fellowship program, which will match upperclassman fellows with 10 freshmen each based on shared academic interests.The fellows will assume the Prefect Program’s function of fostering entryway camaraderie. Each fellow will be assigned to a specific entryway and will organize its events.But unlike prefects, who volunteered their time, the peer-advising fellows will make $1,000 a year.“We did not want to exclude students who are on financial...