Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kathleen M. Bybee '78 came to Harvard from Salt Lake ("the mecca," she calls it flippantly) with a chip on her shoulder, expecting the worst. "I had read about the persecutions of Mormons in Illinois [where Joseph Smith was pulled from a jail and killed by an angry mob], and I kind of expected a little persecution," she says with a nervous smile that hardly conceals her embarassment at this paranoia. The oldest of seven children ("people always joke about Mormons and Catholics," she adds), Bybee chose Radcliffe over BYU, her parent's favorite. "They were afraid I would fall...
...says he can understand why alumni want to stay around. Cambridge, he says, is a "flag" to young graduates--saying, in effect, There are people like you here, plenty of them. He thinks Cambridge has eclipsed San Francisco in that respect, and now stands as a formidable post-graduate Mecca. Why should Harvard students, he asks, be immune to that lure...
...trek to Mecca...
Ebert became dean of the Medical School one year after his arrival, and succeeded with programs at Harvard where he had been frustrated at Case Western Reserve University. Ebert, who will resign the deanship in July 1977, fulfills a certain Harvard myth: Harvard as an academic mecca...
Triumphant Trip. Hawaii, which has become a mecca for vacationing Japanese, will be the imperial couple's last U.S. stop. There are no plans for a tour of Pearl Harbor. To Americans, such a visit would only seem penitential, while" many Japanese still look on the Dec. 7, 1941 attack as a glorious victory in the lost war. But Japanese officials are apprehensive about the possibility of an overeffusive welcome for the Emperor by the 15,000 Japanese nationals and 208,000 Japanese Americans who live in Hawaii. They are particularly unsettled by the prospect of cheers of "Banzai...