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After some soul searching, I discovered why Harvard was looking so simple-minded on the field. The man next to me in the trench coat was writing on a clip board. The paper had a letterhead. It said "The University of Massachusetts...
...year, Tokyoites have had still more reminders that they are, in effect, sitting on a volcano. Mount Asama, 85 miles northwest of Tokyo, literally blew its top in February. Three months later, there was an upheaval in the Pacific seabed that lifted part of the bottom of the Bonin Trench an astonishing 6,000 ft., forming a new volcano north of Iwo Jima. In June came a major quake in Hokkaido, though it caused no deaths...
...seem to counter the creed of the "now" generation in their fascination with the past. Some of the compulsion for archaeology, suggests Bryn Mawr Graduate Student Erik Nielson, is that "you can only learn so much from books. There comes a point when you have to kneel over a trench and handle an object that's fresh from the ground." Despite the long hours, backbreaking and often boring labor, an increasing number of students have been doing just that. Some of the more interesting summer digs...
...Hunt Hall, long an architectural curiosity, and recently the home of the Vis Stud Department and the Graduate School of Design, has been demolished to make way for Canaday Hall, a new freshman dorm. At the other end of the Yard, bulldozers and dynamite are digging a 40-foot trench that will become, hopefully by the spring of 1975, the Pusey Library, an addition to Widener...
...Rock Star Mick, went to St. Laurent, who acknowledged it from somewhere in Outer Egoland: since "everyone was copying me," said the master, "I decided to copy myself." Still, the familiar long cardigans (including one bejeweled evening affair costing $3,000), belted jackets and floppy pants, and YSL trench coats-all further elongated by appearing over 4-in. heels-never looked better. For evening, St. Laurent recommended slinky ciré dresses and one-shouldered georgette gowns, many set off by gold and copper snakehead jewelry. The color emphasis was what might be called old-lady chic-gun-metal grays...