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...after the Pearl Harbor attacks, George I. Fujimoto ’42, a biochemistry concentrator of Japanese descent, was quoted in these pages as saying, “I don’t see how this situation can affect me at all. I am an American like the rest of us, involved...
While Harvard proved a safe haven for Fujimoto, back home in Seattle things were not so tranquil for Japanese-Americans. Three months after Pearl Harbor, Fujimoto’s family was given orders to abandon its home and business and prepare to be moved into an internment camp, along with the vast majority of all other Japanese on the West Coast...
...first battle of the Revolution. Among his many other accomplishments, Baldwin was responsible for the development of the Baldwin apple—which was once considered New England’s favorite fruit. He also oversaw the construction of the Middlesex Canal, which originally spanned from Boston Harbor to the Merrimack River in Lowell—a feat that earned him the moniker “Father of American Civil Engineering.” “He was a pretty extraordinary fellow,” Edmonds said. The memorial, which consists of a triangle-shaped green, a cannon...
...Boston into a significant destination in the contemporary art world.The ICA, designed by New York-based architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, is both a strikingly beautiful building and the celebrated avant-garde design team’s first undertaking in the United States. The glass-clad structure thrusts over Boston Harbor, the top floor firmly cantilevered 80 feet beyond the building’s footprint, above a harbor-side promenade. The traditional neoclassical museum entrance is inverted: two sweeping sets of steps rise from the open water to meet the museum, but imposing marble is replaced by warm wood and they...
...harbor no particular resentment toward Mr. Haddock. The problem of presidential anonymity seems to be institutional rather than isolated to his tenure. Further, I would conjecture that John Haddock is even a “fantastic guy”— as his now pulled-down campaign website testifies he is— and that he has “worked tirelessly for students.” (I assume as much of all UC presidents.) But that is not enough. A UC president should inspire us. Or, failing that, he should enrage us, polarize us, or simply amuse...