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...rich red and orange hues of the giant murals of Josef Mikl breathed new life into Vienna's 18th century Redoutensaal concert hall. In addition to winning praise for his abstract works in sculpture, drawing and painting, Mikl helped reinvigorate the art community and heal its wounds following the Nazi era in his native Austria...
Grandpop's reward was nothing so grand as getting elected U.S. Congressman. His highest position was ward secretary in the 43rd. But when he retired from the plant, Grandpop got a job working at the election commission down at City Hall. In his mind, it was a due reward for his years of service to the party, payment for his loyalty; it was a reminder, too, of those countless days in the 1930s when he was unemployed and walked each morning the 12 miles (20 km) down Broad Street to City Hall in hopes of getting work. That...
...Emmeline D. Francis ’11 is a Crimson editorial editor in Mower Hall...
Annenberg is the spitting image of Hogwarts’ Great Hall; the Harvard housing lottery resembles Hogwarts’ sorting ceremony; acceptance letters are delivered by owls. Harvard has almost everything that the magical world of Harry Potter contains—except for Quidditch. Although Harvard is still missing out on the magic, “Muggle Quidditch” is sweeping through the nation. Well over one hundred colleges, including our Ivy League rivals Yale and Princeton, are already part of the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association, the official league started by Middlebury College students in 2005. Muggle Quidditch is played...
...world for women to succeed in. “Woodlands definitely helped with my development as a person. I started to feel more comfortable with who I was and speaking up in class,” Marquina says. She carried this sense of self-confidence from the uniform-clad halls of Woodlands Academy to the steps of Widener Library, citing her single-sex education as the main reason for this easy transition. But even with a high school emphasis on feminist confidence, it remains that single-sex schools cannot possibly superimpose their academic philosophies onto larger, coed universities. While within...