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...Rivers; time and time again he found himself with no place to go, forced to hunt for food or haunted by the spectre of another desperate street situation. After leaving New Haven in 1975, he came to Cambridge where he eventually met Martin Kilson, professor of Government, and Judith Tilman '78, two people who made a significant difference in his life. In 1976, after a time of "serious hustling" with the help of Kilson. Rivers enrolled as a visiting undergraduate at Harvard. He consistently worked for 50 hours a week to support himself while taking two classes, and, for more...
...different backgrounds as well as whites here "was a real culture shock," he says. In addition, "I didn't have the apparatus to read the professional cues." Quite simply, he did not know the unwritten rules of behavior which so many students are weaned on, he says, adding that Tilman was instrumental in helping him adjust...
From the Annunciation to her Assumption and her final crowning, Mary's life, both on earth and in heaven, is re-enacted in a series of shell-like stages that were one of the hallmarks of the Renaissance sculptor, Tilman Riemenschneider. He had come to Würzburg in 1483 as a painter's apprentice, rose to be city councilor and finally mayor. Then, during the Peasants' War, he flatly refused the bishop's order to take a stand against the rebels. He was stripped of his honors, "harshly judged and tortured," and legend...
Leaving the rest of the party snug in the monastery, Dr. Charles Houston of Exeter, N.H. (son of Leader Houston) and Major H. W. Tilman, veteran British mountain climber, hired three Sherpa porters to do the heavy toting and set out for the mountain, which towered abruptly above them. They faced a part of Nepal which is wholly unexplored except by natives...
Snowy Plume. Dr. Houston and Major Tilman camped on a high ridge and climbed to about 19,000 ft. to study the south face of Mt. Everest. Even at this great height (about 3,000 ft. above the summit of Mt. Blanc), they saw tracks of rabbits, mice and snow leopards. There was no snow except in crevices, but above their heads a vast plume of snow whipped off the icy summit, blowing out miles downwind like a gigantic pennant. They made maps and took photographs. Then they rejoined the rest of the party and returned to New Delhi...