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More than 25 years ago, Douglas Bryant came to Cambridge to work as an administrative assistant in the University library system. Today, as the only man ever to hold simultaneously the positions of University Librarian and Director of the University Library, Bryant has left more of a mark on what many consider the finest academic library in the world than even Harry E. Widener '07. For instance, Harvard invented the position of Director of the University Library for Douglas Bryant...
Both first-games starters--Stewart and Northeastern ace Shawn Brickman--were shaky in the opening innings, as the basepaths looked like Fresh Pond Parkway at rush hour. The Crimson pushed across four runs (enough to win the ballgame, as it turned out) in the first three innings on a Mark Bingham sacrifice fly. RBI singles by Bobby Kelley and Chuck Marshall, and an embarrassing error by Northeastern's hapless third baseman, Kevin Kenny...
...single player managed to break the 80 mark on the tight and chilly Brae Burn layout, scene of the U.S. Women's Open Championship...
...more conventional stories tend to find their mark, but here too, the quality is uneven. In "Cortes and Montezuma," Barthelme demonstrates his mastery of a peculiar form that might be called transmogrification of legend, the same form he used in his novel Snow White and several short stories. He takes the fabeled meeting of Cortes and Montezuma and twists it, distorts it, makes it fresh. Among the stories, "Tales of the Swedish Army" relates a sudden meeting of the author and a unit of Swedish soldiers on maneuvers in lower Manhattan, an exercise of the imaginative virtuosity that has characterized...
...Mark R. Anderson '81 takes a more economical viewpoint: "As long as it doesn't cost much, I'll try anything. 'Bub' [an abbreviation used by gumconnoisseurs] is pretty reasonable, so I hope the new gum will cost about the same...