Word: mems
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...cars; adequate commercial frontage must be provided for visitor services. Inclusion of some taxable property, such as apartments, is desirable; proper pedestrian access to Brattle Square is a must; and some way (such as an overpass) for visitors to get to the Charles without being run down on Mem Drive would certainly be nice. All these objectives are within the realm of possibility if the City doesn't play politics and if the Kennedy Corporation doesn't arrogantly ignore the needs of the City...
This time of year, Harvard Yard is covered in stately snow drifts, and the afternoon light makes the steeple on Mem Church gleam against blue winter skies. Blankets of lights hang above Mass. Ave. like starry spider webs. Harvard students, too smart to study, take their dining hall trays for rides down the steps of Widener...
Gomes, who is Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church, ushers me into his cozy Mem Church office and waves me toward the plush couch. He settles himself in the chair opposite me, calmly folds his hands in his lap and fixes me with a pensive gaze. I try my best to look studious and upstanding as I explain to him my situation. I’m writing a personal narrative, I begin. Pause. Well, I don’t really understand religion, I admit. Sometimes, I even have a hard time relating to very...
...bust itself was very upsetting—at 5 a.m. there was a piercing shriek, a high-pitched buzz. The SDS had pulled all of the fire alarms in all of the dorms when they figured out that there was a bust coming. Buses pulled up between Mem Church and Thayer, right outside my window. The state police had come out for this. It was like a scene out of the movies, out of Spartacus—they got off the bus, lined up in phalanxes and marched over to University Hall. I wonder if this was just...
Unfortunately, the tower’s 360-degree view of Harvard is difficult to appreciate with the bell swinging within inches of one’s head. Though the schedule is complex and exact, Campbell graciously allows for some experimentation. After a demo swing or two, FM let the Mem Hall bell rip. And ask not, gentle reader, for whom it was tolling...