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...Once the day was done—after I’d kicked the academic dust from my heels and trotted the rounds of activities—I liked to retreat into the privacy and comfort of my room, Thayer 414. But it was a shock to realize that this home, unlike my last, no longer promised privacy...
...fantastic, an experience that will enable us to apply the knowledge we’ve presumably learned here, but also to acquire the practical and intangible that no 70-hour academic-cum-extracurricular-cum-social schedule that is our Ivory Tower Harvard life can provide. Our academic experiences in Thayer and Emerson seem necessary but also painfully insufficient during these sunny months that encourage creativity and challenge us to use the time as best we can.We are chasing some novel and edifying experience that is mercurial in both its grandeur and its elusiveness. Never at rest, and never complacent...
...eagerly read works on the history of war. Yet it would be fair to say that his notions about sea power--build bigger warships, concentrate the fleet--were primitive until the late 1880s, when he was introduced to one of the greatest luminaries of naval thought, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan. At the time of their first meeting, Mahan, then in his late 40s, was giving lectures at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., lectures that would culminate in the 1890 publication of his international best seller, The Influence of Sea Power upon History...
...journalist, and that was it—full stop,” Welch says of her college days. A fine arts concentrator focusing in Dutch art, Welch was also features editor of The Crimson. According to Erica Rosenberg ’81, her roommate for three years in Thayer Hall and Lowell House, she also played in the University Band and was captain of the squash team. “She was actually really quite the jock,” Rosenberg says. “She brought a lot of flare to her work. She was very creative in what...
...giant ‘704’ computer.2/20: Drawings of the radcliffe graduate refectory were finalized. The refectory is the second building of the quadrangle to be constructed and will contain dining facilities for the graduate school as well as housing for approximately 40 students.2/23: A sudden fire in Thayer North causes $100 worth in damages before it was discovered. Eliot House senior Richard Friedberg ’56 speaks at the Institute for Advanced Study on his solution to a math problem which has been unsolved for over a decade.2/25: Stillman Infirmary accepts its second woman patient ever, even...