Word: severities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suspect that maybe the last two years have been an utter mistake and find myself attending such gems as History of Art and Architecture 62: Painting and Sculpture in Italy or Economics 1010b: Intermediate Macroeconomics. But as I contemplate the crowds swelling in and out of lecture halls in Sever, Boylston, and Emerson Halls, my mind roams from philosophers, poems, and social phenomena to wondering why courses are such good predictors of physical appearance and style of dress...
Most importantly, online registration is more convenient for students. Undergrads can now register at their leisure, instead of feeling like cattle herded through Sever Hall. There was no important reason to have students register in person, and thankfully the transition has been made...
...University Sees Renovation Blitz,” News, Aug. 5: The code-of-conduct-for-construction-worker signs conspicuously placed around Sever Hall perpetuate a class stereotype of these workers as cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking, misogynistic, homophobes ignorant of how to behave on the civilized confines of an Ivy League university. If I were one of these workers I would feel humiliated by the condescension of these signs, and their public display would add to the insult. Construction workers may be so unevolved that they earn their living by the sweat of their brow, but they are human beings...
Externally, Sever, which is a national historic landmark, will undergo restoration, with molding, trim, tiles, and masonry cleaned, repaired, and returned to original colors and styles...
...This year inside Sever Hall a wonderful renovation is taking place to create a new, contemporary, exciting space for the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies,” Snyder wrote...