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...Union was designed by McKim, Mead & White, a renowned turn-of-the-century architecture firm whose works include the Harvard Club in New York City and the Boston Public Library. The planned destruction of the hall recalls the wanton destruction of the firm's greatest work, Pennsylvania Station in New York City in 1964. This monument fell victim to the disastrous urban "renewal" programs of the '50's and the '60's. The loss of Pennsylvania Station is now universally regretted. Yet the administration of our great university seems bent on committing a similar travesty...
...about time. Sadly, however, a growing number of parents feel compelled to opt out of public schools altogether: more than 700,000 children are educated at home, up from about 12,500 in the late 1970s. No small number of them are taught by Kenneth and Julie McKim of Pecan Gap, Texas, who started educating their 13 children at home more than a decade ago. Says Julie: ``We wanted our children to be protected before they had to face someone who was offering them drugs or before they had to make moral choices we would rather our children not make...
...kiosk in Copley Square Park at the corner of Dartmouth and Boylston Streets would violate the integrity of the recently-renovated and still fragile Copley Square Park. Copley Square is home to the historic Trinity Church (designed by H.H. Richardson, who also designed Harvard's Sever Hall) and McKim, Mead and White's magnificent Boston Public Library. These buildings constitute an important part of Boston's architectural and cultural heritage...
...virtually every poetry prize the University offers and a few outside awards as well. In his first year, he won the Academy of American Poets Prize. In his junior year, he won the Horeman Prize from the Creative Writing Department. As a senior, he won both the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for Poetry and the Hoopes Prize for his thesis, a collection of poems titled "Most Way Home." He has twice placed in the Harvard Advocate's poetry contest, and once placed in The Independent's He has published his poems in the Advocate, The Harvard Quarterly, The Harvard Gazette...
...give or take, that St. Louis razed 40 quaint blocks of riverfront warehouses; that Pasadena, Calif., tore up a fine commercial neighborhood to build a standard aluminum shopping mall; that Madison, Wis., let Burger King raze an 1850s stone house for its headquarters; that New York City tore down McKim, Mead and White's glorious Pennsylvania Station...