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What The Crimson fails to mention is that it was in the days of the legendary "Gold Coast" dormitories--luxurious buildings built to accommodate Harvard's wealthiest students--that the seeds of the Harvard House system were first sown. President A. Lawrence Lowell recognized that a great evil lurked in the rise of these private dorms; he dubbed them "an enemy to democracy." As early as 1913, Lowell authorized the construction of new freshman houses along the river. Students were eventually drawn away from the Gold Coast dorms...
...critical point here it that it was precisely the homogeneity of the Gold Coast dorm--the-fact that the "Gold-Coasters" were a self-selected and elite group--that ultimately led to the establishment of Harvard's House system in the 1930's. When, by the 1990's, the Houses bore "too much character," or, what is another way of saying too much exclusivity, the Houses themselves became doomed to reformation through randomization...
...painter of sublime, theatrical Western scenery like Albert Bierstadt and an Australian one like the more modest Eugene von Guerard, it isn't accidental. Both received the same training at the Dusseldorf Academy and acquired skill at the tight, glossy, detailed rendering of grandiose scenes. Von Guerard joined the gold rush to Australia in 1852 but failed as a prospector, and made a career for 30 years painting two kinds of scenery: portraits of the settled acres of the well-to-do pastoralists; and views of more exotic wildness, from the bizarrely sculpted sea cliffs of Cape Schanck...
...creation of 19th century Australian landscape was taken by the group known as the Australian Impressionists, whose most gifted members were Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts. Between them they created a landscape idiom that would last for decades and is still enormously popular there today: the blue-and-gold bush, with its clear light and exquisite transparencies. They weren't Impressionists in the orthodox, French sense--their work had nothing to do with Monet, for instance; their sources lay in late 19th century French realism and, above all, in the work of Whistler...
...still predominant in the man who was hired to pilot Netscape through Microsoft-infested waters--and who, on the witness stand, is proving to be Bill Gates' worst enemy. John Doerr, the venture capitalist and Johnny Appleseed of Silicon Valley who helped recruit Barksdale, refers to him as the "gold standard of CEOs...