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...bedroom medieval French chateau. There he continues to produce work that sounds less like a grand seigneur than a great copywriter: "How would you like to watch a Wall Creeper running up and down the apricot walls?" he writes. "You lunch in the garden in the shade of a seventeenth-century holly tree...
...medieval mode, mounting Romanesque capitals on low semi-detached pedestals projecting from the wall. The Fogg's fourteenth century Italian paintings were arranged in the areas between columns and framed by medieval chests set below. Undaunted by tradition, Slive and Freedberg replaced the small medieval works with larger seventeenth century canvases--a group which is better fitted to the room and more representative of the Fogg's strengths. (The early Renaissance works, among them gilded gems such as Fra Angelico's Crucifixion, are now contained in a small grey-blue jewelbox of a gallery upstairs...
After he graduated, before moving to Harvard, Scalise was an assistant to his old coach Cliff Stevenson, who is in his seventeenth year at the Bruin helm. Beating his mentor would signify a coming of age for Scalise as coach. He missed the chance the first time he tried when he ordered his team to run wind sprints just before the game. They tired after building an early lead and lost, 14-12. Last spring Harvard rallied for a six-goal halftime deficit to take the game into overtime, but finally bowed...
...year-old Jack stood 5 ft. 10 in., weighed 165 pounds, and when he eagled the 18th hole at Scioto for a 69, it was clear that a golfing prodigy had burst on the scene. At age 20 he reached the island green on the 50-yard seventeenth at Cherry Hills with a drive and a seven-iron...
Thomas D. Balliett '75 said, "This is the seventeenth year I've been in school, and somewhere along the line worrying about grades has to stop...