Word: mason
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...exceptionally private Pynchon, whose brilliant post-modern novels include V, The Crying of Lot 49 and the magnum opus Gravity's Rainbow, hasn't released a new book since 1997's Mason & Dixon. Only a handful of photos exist of the author, 69, mainly from his school days and the most recent a dodgy paparazzi-type shot in 1998. A CNN crew had filmed him the previous year, but the news network decided not to identify him after Pynchon, who reportedly lives in New York, called to complain. "Let me be unambiguous," he told the news channel. "I prefer...
Camille I. Mason ’10, who went upstairs after a Kuumba Singers of Harvard College rehearsal to chill in the Penthouse yesterday, said that before SOCH, she would likely have only travelled to the Quad for rehearsals and parties...
With the unveiling of the new report on General Education, Harvard is poised to forge a path different than Yale and Princeton, and make unlikely bedfellows with the State University of New York system and George Mason University by mandating a course on the subject of the United States. As one of the general education categories replacing the unpopular Core and its "ways of knowing" approach, "The United States: Historical and Global Perspectives" is a welcomed component of a new curriculum...
...indeed more atheists in the professorate than in the general population, but many professors are people of faith.” The study, titled “How Religious Are America’s College and University Professors” and written by Gross and Solon Simmons of George Mason University, found that 36.6 percent of professors at “elite institutions” identify themselves as atheists or agnostics, in comparison to 23.4 percent of professors nationwide. The study used the “US News and World Report” ranking of the top 50 doctoral universities...
...classes, managing good grades despite skipping most lectures. He was extremely involved in music on campus, playing piano for the Glee Club (before being fired for being late to rehearsal), putting on concerts, and playing the accompaniment to silent movies in Sanders Theater, according to William Powell Mason Professor of Music Carol Oja, who is also co-director of the festival...