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...Orange Group--aged 15 to 17--have the varied schedules, enjoying the sights of the Boston area and learning all about their parents' alma mater. They'll spend part of the week shopping at Quincy Market, hiking at Mt. Monadnock, swimming at Crane's Beach, and cheering on the Boston Red Sox. But on Wednesday afternoon they'll have the opportunity to attend symposia on "Inside College Admissions" or "Life at Harvard...
Vialet, along with Mimi Winsberg '86, also directs the Harvard Outdoor Program, a Saturday program that takes kids from the inner city outdoors. Past programs have included biking at a state park, going on a ropes course, ice-skating, and climbing Mount Monadnock...
Nestled in the grey-green Monadnock mountains of New Hampshire, there's a place--let's call it Pear valley-- where people gather during the summer to play chamber music and lose their virginity. Not quite a music camp, and certainly not a bunny farm, it defies conventional classification. Ask any of its devoted alumni (and there are dozens at Harvard) what it is, and you'll get a dreamy look and something like, "Oh, it's just magical. We went skinnydipping and played the Mendelsohn Octet until 4 a.m. Like, it's the most amazing experience I've ever...
Dudley House members including their master, annually scale Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire. According to house legend, Mayer challenges the students to reach the peak before he does and every year he's the first one to the top. Mayer laughed when asked about this story. "I'd despair about the general health of the population if out of all those students, there wasn't somebody who could get there before I do. But," he quickly added, "I did finish well before a number of students...
...Less specifically labeled a resort area but spattered with the second homes of Bostonians and sometimes New Yorkers is the whole gently mountainous area of Southern Vermont and New Hampshire. Typical is the so-called Monadnock Region, with its cluster of unchanged and unchanging New England towns ?Peterboro, Dublin, Hancock, Jaffrey. Those with homes in the area include Chicago Newspaper Scion Marshall Field III, Harlow Shapley, famed Harvard astronomer, Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera...