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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard has used Bryant's skills to build itself a library system that looks to the future while not forgetting its past. The University has demanded a lot from Bryant but he'll argue forever that he's gotten back his investment. There is never a word that even faintly suggests ego. "If I ever got that modest," a colleague says, "people wouldn't know...
...library staff, which he ceaselessly praises as the most committed and competent in the nation, that has kept Harvard in the fore of the library world. The number of employees in the College Library system--those 15 which come under the Widener bailiwick--has stayed the same for the past ten years. But acquisitions of collections, and hence the workload of the staff, have dramatically increased. Harvard's library system, once labelled a network so vast and expansive that one can get happily lost," boasts almost 100 branch libraries holding nearly 10 million items. Bryant has seen the construction...
...forms, dance has experienced perhaps the greatest growth during the past decade. The bold experiments in modern dances during the '60s have come to fruition in the '70s; audiences regularly pack theaters to see such well-known troupes as Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, and Pilobilus. And the trend toward innovation has so spread that now companies in back-country towns like Northampson, Mass. perform works once restricted to New York's Greenwich Village. Fifteen years ago dance in Boston meant the Boston Ballet, which recently staged Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty"; today the number of dance and ballet companies...
Although dance may be experiencing a renaissance of sorts, it is still difficult for new groups to conduct the thorough public relations campaigns and secure the large performance halls necessary to establish a devoted audience following. For this reason dance troupes have, for the past several years, collaborated in dance festivals featuring a few name companies interspersed among local and experimental troupes. The most famous such festival, New York Dance Umbrella, has used groups like Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham as its "anchor" companies; for the most part, these festivals have so far been unsuccessful in Boston...
Faught, a second-team All-Ivy and honorable mention All-American player last year when he collected 58 goals, ripped his high-velocity shots past Williams netminder Bill Child seven times in the second half--five in the fourth quarter--to raise his team-leading season goal total...