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...decades, Massachusetts has enjoyed a peculiar double reputation for political affiliations. The Commonwealth is both the Puritan colony of John Winthrop and the most liberal state in the Union; it was the only state to give its electoral votes to George McGovern in 1972 and is the outdated land that only recently took its Blue liquor laws off the books. The last 200 years were, in a sense, a lengthy experiment in banishing the 17th century from Massachusetts—leaving its reactionary history behind and defining the Bay State as a haven for the progressive principles of tolerance...
It’s not all fun and games when it comes to Yale’s dogged lameness. Much has been made of late of the peculiar case of a Harvard School of Public Health lecturer who seemed to think it was all right to represent himself as a Ph.D. after purchasing an ersatz degree from an online Argentinean institution that required neither classes nor tests for “graduation.” That incident, as regrettable as it was, involved only one bad apple in the sumptuous bushels of Harvard’s faculties. How much greater...
...Widener’s altruism, however, came with a few peculiar conditions, including a provision permitting her “to do grading and landscape work” on the grounds of the new library...
...covered bridge connecting Widener and Houghton Libraries, whose peculiar history has long peppered Harvard tours with quirky anecdotes, will be demolished this spring, library officials have announced...
This meant scrambling for the sidelines, hitting bang-bang first-down tosses and even relying on a peculiar intentional grounding call on which no penalty was assessed...