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...Ottawa Silver Seven drop-kicked the Cup into a canal. The boys kept the party going through the night, and rescued the Cup the next day. Two years later, the Montreal Wanderers gave the Cup to a photographer, who was tasked with documenting their title. Instead, the photog's mother turned Stanley into a fancy flowerpot. A few months later, Wanderers management retrieved the soiled prize...
...Greene said. “I was able to keep going on at a pace that felt right, rather than a pace that the school was offering.”Greene was treading uncharted academic territory in his family. His father dropped out of high school and his mother did not finish college. Though his father lacked formal education, Greene said, he was very intellectual and was “captivated by ideas.” Greene’s older brother left the University of Wisconsin to follow the Hare Krishna movement. Despite their different paths, Greene said...
...restrictive rules and mores.In addition to the beauty pageant, in 1959, only Radcliffe women had curfews and dining hall chores. Women were not allowed to wear pants in the evenings below the second floor of their dormitories. They were also supervised by a number of “house mothers.”Few of these house mothers had advanced degrees, as opposed to Harvard’s academically focused tutors.“Our house mother was wonderful and sweet,” Mary C. Swope ’59 (originally Mary G. Carlton) said...
...Berenson’s Villa has become just that—an institutionalized arcadia that offers a small community of scholars the opportunity to nourish themselves with all the fruits of Berenson’s bouquet.A PRECOCIOUS CHILDBorn to a Jewish family in Lithuania, Berenson, along with his mother and two younger siblings, followed his father to Boston in 1875, when Berenson was 10 years old. He was a precocious child who could read German by the age of three and was already well-versed in authors of the Romantic period by the time he was 12. After graduating from...
...imaginable.” Coming from Denver to Harvard was, in those days, still vaguely unusual: Denver was remote and provincial, far from the colorful melting pots of 19th century New Orleans, or ancient Rome. His storytelling father, a newspaperman, died when Howe was eight years old, widowing his mother and making money scarce. It was only a National Scholarship from Harvard that allowed Howe to afford an Ivy League education. Recalling his early days of transition between Denver and Harvard, Howe interrupts himself to say, “By the way, in those days transportation meant the train...