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...Stadium was erected in 1903 under the direction of Lewis F. Johnson, a member of the civil engineering department at Harvard, Ira Hollis, a faculty member and Charles F. McKim of the architecture firm of McKim, Mead and White. It was one of the first poured-in-place, reinforced concrete structures in America. At the time of building, it was the largest structure of reinforced concrete in the world, seating 24,000. It has since been enlarged to seat...
...publisher of the Fredericksburg, Va., newspaper, is at his desk, perusing stories ready for that day's edition. Josiah Rowe, who shares the publishing chores with his brother, is reading his mail. Managing Editor Bob Baker is preparing for the 8:00 a.m. story conference, while Obituary Writer Eileen Mead is already fielding calls from those with sad news. And, oh, yes, one of the younger reporters, maybe Daryl Lease, perhaps Maria Carrillo, has run across the street to Scotty's Bakery for coffee and doughnuts...
Bateson, the daughter of Margaret Mead and now a professor of anthropology at Amherst College, and other alumnae point to their living arrangements as a symbol of the disadvantages Radcliffe students confronted. "We had to live in the [Radcliffe] Quad, and there was no transportation. But we took it for granted and developed strong leg muscles. Now you can't get anyone to live there unless you provide transportation...
...young women trying to make decisions it was very confusing. Distinguished individuals disagreed," says Judith Wilson Rogers '61. "Radcliffe had a traditional senior-junior luncheon. At ours [then-Radcliffe President] Mary I. Bunting gave a statement on how it was possible to combine marriage and a career. Margaret Mead was the second speaker, and she told the class that it was not possible, that you had to make sacrifices...
...normal panoply of Harvard types. Wehad our scholars, our jocks, our socialites andserious students, grinds, preppies, animals,workaholics and alcoholics. We had hellraiserstoo. Who had not heard of the tales of Fat City atMad River when with Rusty Mead and John Hall orthe story of Red Dog Desloge's theft of a policecar? I remember the absolutely sinful delight ofzooming down Memorial Drive at midnight in earlyJune, finished for the year and free beyondbelief, astride my BSA 5000 motorcycle withPantaleoni and Eric Nelson on their bikes rightalongside...