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Thomas C. Gray ’10, a current resident of Mass. Hall said that the dorm has the same mix of studious and non-studious students as any other...
Blomgren runs Windflower with his wife Jan. He is 46, and on the day we rode to the farm, he wore sandals and glasses. Ted, who has a degree from Cornell, is balding and studious, and might pass for a professor if he didn't have so much dirt under his toenails. Ted and Jan--who has lovely bright blue eyes perpetually fixed in a startled expression--have operated Windflower for eight years with their sons Nathaniel, 14, and Jacob, 11. On the day I visited last summer, I watched a barefoot Nathaniel walk to the henhouse to collect eggs...
...into his usual routine. There he’ll remain for hours at a time, occasionally napping, getting up only to exchange reading material. “I like this library,” he says. It’s just that simple. Random though he may seem to studious undergraduates, John told FM that he graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1968. From there, he taught mathematics at Northern Illinois University for twenty years before returning to his hometown. For the past seventeen years, he has been doing research for an economist...
Opening the story proper, our historian sets the scene in Amsterdam, 1972. Sheltered, studious, and alienated from the “tough-talking, chain-smoking sophisticates” in the brat cohort of diplomats’ children, the protagonist spends long hours with the 19th century tomes in her father’s library during his frequent absences. She becomes captivated by a “much older volume” that breaks the collection’s uniformity: an enigmatic medieval text marked by a woodcut of a dragon and concealing a collection of yellowing letters...
...resignation letter, as well as an inscribed first edition of 1899’s “The Rough Riders” by Teddy Roosevelt, Class of 1880. For those with more modest budgets, one bookseller displayed moderately priced pop-up books. Whether looking to pick up a studious, studly intellectual, or just hoping to supplement your library of leather-bound books, Boston’s International Antiquarian Fair has you covered. Well, maybe next year...