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More recently, a portrait of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the first person to receive a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard and a dedicated humanist, was unveiled...
...curators’ endeavors resulted in the hanging of the first portrait of a woman on the walls of the Faculty room in the mid-1990s and a second two weeks...
...wife, Associate Dean of the College Georgene B. Herschbach, commissioned the second portrait...
Eventually, a portrait of Helen Keller was placed in the building. The portrait of the first blind graduate of Radcliffe had previously resided in Georgene Herschbach’s office...
...want to be: alongside a gun-toting twentysomething sidling up to the Shanghai Club's Long Bar. Clipped and believable, the dialogue is thankfully not laden with clichEd detective slang. And Bradby doesn't bore us by showing off all that historical research. Instead, he weaves together a vivid portrait of the times and a ripping good crime tale as he slowly unravels the characters' hidden secrets (and they all have them). As Field's ribald aunt puts it: "Everyone expects Shanghai to be decadent so we like to give the impression of debauchery." The Master of Rain goes...