Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...headed for the door. I did not dread returning to Harvard the following year; I had made good friends and found a niche in East Asian Studies and The Crimson. I looked forward to starting over, out of the Yard. But I savored every last step down the stairs, past Chuck's room and out of Stoughton forever. Chuck's still loose. And Stoughton's still there. Welcome to Harvard.CrimsonAnthea Letsou...
...found his enemy sitting in the House lounge with his latest honey, Barbara of my green past. Barbara was giggling and laughing at her scrub-clean mate when Little Joe cuffed him on the back of the neck and told him to apologize. This time, the wolf sent the man scrambling up the tree, tottering uncertainly from a limb...
This may not be enough, though. One professor, whose seminar is enormously popular, admits only one or two students without fathers famous enough to be known to him. Another dismisses the written applications in favor of geographical, income-level, racial, and educational balance. Many resort to a lottery past the initial application...
...irreverent street rags of adolescence; he shed Harvard's illusions of grandeur and specialty with every step. The world of people and events wafted about his presence far-removed and unimportant. HE was the moment, ignorant and unconcerned with the vague promises of the future of the past...
Mass Ave is not Cambridge's only street though. On the Porter Square side of Harvard, you can follow Concord Avenue out to Fresh Pond (Huron Avenue), past the University Observatory, Keeezer's Harvard Exchange 'read pawnbroker', historic houses with leafy front yards and the National Guard armory. Brattle Street is chic Cambridge--its residents, the "Brattle Street liberal elite," are famous for their riches, their devotion to causes celebres, and their walls. If you don't see the wall at the corner of Brattle and Fresh Pond Parkway, your tuition has gone to waste. This serpentine wonder causes several...