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...trek down Yawkey Way. The decaying World Series flag form 1918. The monstrous green wall in left field, A Harvard jersey on the mound it can only means one thing...
That "all of it, every last detail" seems a tad superfluous; readers who haul this hefty novel onto their lap will already have guessed that they're in for a long trek. And for quite a while the journey seems enchanting indeed. Rai's account of his and Ormus' Bombay childhood becomes a pageant of Dickensian, subcontinent eccentrics, particularly the boys' diversely obsessed parents...
...single Harvard student emerging from an all-night and all-day job on a forgettable 15-pager to trek to the Core office is an ugly sight. Worse yet is the final day of reading period, when all of the campus is doing...
...depths of the River, vending machines don't always fulfill the need for quick mid-morning snacks. Only problem is that this time-honored joint opens at different times every day, making it difficult to judge whether you should settle for another pop-tart or trek for a big bag of pretzels...
...during World War II, when many Harvard men were sent overseas, Faculty members grumbled about making the trek to Radcliffe and duplicating their already under-attended lectures. In 1943, the two institutions agreed to share responsibility for female undergraduates: Harvard would phase in mixed-sex class-rooms (completed in 1947), but Radcliffe would continue to maintain separate residential housing...