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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard was really exciting to me, because I'd never been to New England before--and I'd been to New York only once. So this was a great chance to travel to places like Brown--that's in Rhode Island, right?--and improve my knowledge of geography (laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Guamanian Out of Water | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...lunch was scattered all over the floor, and The Harvard Crimson was, without knowing it, cheering at me through a Beatles song. I could stay pissed off, or I could laugh...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Four Years Later | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

Many recent graduates continue to frequentCambridge, coming to undergraduate parties, datingundergraduates, and trying to hold on to thequickly receding pleasures of their Harvard youth.I used to laugh at these hangers-on, but I nowunderstand their weakness. Like them, I came herea naive youth, only to be stripped of myself-confidence, and thrown into an adult worldthat is infinitely more complex and subtle thanthe one I left. I suspect that those who do nothave this fear of leaving college have yet toreach that moment of self-knowledge, thatrealization that life is neither as wonderful oras simple as it seems...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Remembering Their Harvard Experience | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

...graduates] laugh, and they come in" to the store, said Martha A. Fallon, manager of The Harvard Shop, describing the special class shirt which reads "this shirt cost my family $63,721." By comparison, the shirt costs the graduate next to nothing, selling for a mere...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Big Bucks Time for Square Merchants | 6/3/1986 | See Source »

...writes, "Your father, think of it, Bayard, was rebuilding slums. There was to be warmth and light, Shakespeare and the beat of African drums . . . Your mother wrapped in a slave's headcloth above a bastard dashiki. French champagne with grits. See the good of it before you laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making Amends Expensive Habits | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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