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...concerned alumni. “I was not in favor of the merger,” Diana E. Post ’67, former second vice president of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association, says. “But the role that Drew Faust played was terrific. We were somewhat of an angry group, some more than others, but the alums were very comfortable with her. In meetings she was straightforward, open, and honest about her plans”—qualities that made implementing drastic changes that much easier.TOUGH CHOICES Along with vision, however, came a host of challenges...
...prose is sometimes hard to read simply because it isn’t very eloquent. He writes like a scientist: past events come across as if they were entries in a study or report. Like observational entries in a report, sentences are often choppy and transitions seemed somewhat unnatural. But while the text is problematic on the micro-level, on the macro-level, Zimbardo proves to be a masterful narrator and paces the story at just the right speed. He is also a lucky man: the material and subject matter naturally invites the curiosity of the reader and allows...
...distant as Tibet: while the colorists may have been familiar with the places the Wulsins visited, the workshop was far, far away from the photographs’ referents. In addition, the slides have degraded in the last three-quarters of a century, and enlarging the slides has exaggerated the somewhat splotchy coloring that makes the otherwise impressive miniaturist painting seem careless.RELICS AND ORNAMENTSIt is little surprise, then, that the photographs which sustain and reward lengthy viewings are those that shift the focus away from naturalistic subjects. “Shamanistic mirror worn at exorcism festival” (1923) shows...
...Peru by 1534. The mines disgorged silver, and by the end of the 16th century, Mexico City and Lima had universities, printing presses and tens of thousands of inhabitants. The Portuguese were harvesting dyewood in Brazil, and the French were trading for furs in Canada. Even the somewhat overlooked Chesapeake had seen European passersby: the Native Americans were not unused to strangers with pale skins and sailing ships...
...April 12, Fifteen Minutes (FM), The Crimson’s weekly magazine, ran a cover story about a group of undergraduate student organizations that were facing financial hardship because of the somewhat unwieldy way Harvard doles out student activity funds. Problem was, at least one of those groups, the quarterly magazine Diversity and Distinction, wasn’t currently facing financial hardship. They hadn’t been for as long as anyone currently in the College has been here. Yet, except for one point where the article says the magazine went into greater debt with each issue it published...