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...History Department voted yesterday to extend an assistant professorship to Ronald W. Yanowski, a specialist in late nineteenth century American social and cultural history, a senior department member said...
...gave me a paddlebal for my nineteenth birthday. I could tell, though, that it was no ordinary paddleball. It was a super deluxe model, made not of flimsy, unfinished pine but of polished dark cherry...
...Under Massachusetts laws," the fine print reads, "this ticket is a revocable license. If sold or offered for sale at a premium, it becomes void." During most of the year, this warning is about as relevant as the Nineteenth Amendment. As the Yale game approaches, ticket scalping becomes hysteric, and nothing can stop...
...addition to her academic interests, Keeney enjoys bicycling, reading, and volunteering with Partners for Disabled Youth, a mentoring program that pairs disabled youth and adults. Her most recent work is a book on amateur botanists in the nineteenth century, which is due to be published in the fall...
...Harvard English department is still beset by a plague that infested the "academic" and "classical" traditions in the wake of the Industrial Revolution: Anglophilia as an easy measure of haute couture. Nineteenth-century old-world wealthy intellectuals differentiated themselves from nouveau riche with cultural Euro-centric distinctions; these distinctions were a strong reaction to an increasingly democratic America...