Word: recentharvardiana
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...these catalogues that the book isweakest; the chapters recounting the nomadicwanderings of Stuart's aunts and uncles--up anddown the East Coast, back and forth across theAtlantic--are entirely forgettable. Of marginalinterest in these lengthy dives into the past arethe glimpses of recent and not-so recentHarvardiana: contempt for the ghettos of NewHaven; romantic entanglements shot to hell over asquash game in Adams House; a complete mentalbreakdown in Lamont Library; a tour of a chintzyQuincy House bachelor pad belonging to her famedcousin; and of course standard turn-of-the-centuryRadcliffe gripes about having to settle forhusbands from the A.D. rather...
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