Word: thirteenth
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From lending a helping hand to holding toga-theme study breaks, prefects have a noticeable presence on campus. Entering its thirteenth year, the Prefect Program has tried to ease first-years into life at Harvard while reducing the gulf between returning students and newcomers to the Yard. Administrators call the Prefect Program a link between College advising and the student experience...
...tour of the facility and soon I learn that the building is a landmark, and that the club is just a shade older than the 14th amendment. The first thing we visit is the wood-paneled Grill Room, an area that could pass for Harvard's thirteenth dining hall. That is, except for the welcome absence of keycard swiping and trays. "And the food is better," Ms. Simpson hastens to mention...
While masters anticipate future dialogues--including talk about a multicultural student center, concerns about the state's alcohol policy and rumblings about a thirteenth House--last week's Council of Masters meeting highlighted a growing concern shared by many: the hope to make the House more of an academic community...
However, there were plenty of empyrean moments. At first the great Magyar thirteenth variation seemed in danger of being too subdued, but then a gust of forceful, mordent arpeggios stirred one back to sense. Pratt's deliberation over the chromaticism of variation 20 was delicious, and his energized attacca of the fugue was stupendous. This is not your grandfather's Brahms--Wilhelm Backhaus was. Wilhelm Backhaus did not have dread-locks...
...Life, Hall establishes connections to these older books--the volume's first poem, "The Night of the Day," continues the story of his 1988 book The One Day, while the second, "The Thirteenth Inning," takes up the Schwitters premise. But the bulk of the book, and the bulk of what Hall read Tuesday, is the title poem, a long agglomeration of short, free-form, highly autobiographical segments. This is "confessional poetry" carried to an extreme--Hall writes exactly what has happened to him, from age 4 to last year, including precise names, dates and locations. The language is not much...