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...such case involved a Denver student who underwent a metamorphosis junior high and high school. According to Time, he "suddenly blossomed a straight-A introverted bookworm articulate leader:" editor of the paper, president of the city's "Youth Kennedy" organization, and class vale-. "But," the article continues, slipped just a shade. As a Harvard passed him over...
...Kathleen O. Elliott, Dean of Radcliffe, discussed the problems of living within the "sequestered vale" of Radcliffe. College life, she said, can be "an assualt on your security--intellectually and emotionally...
...York, and a 19th century sightseer described it as a place of "little velvety islands and silvery rivers, sublimely picturesque in vernal bloom." Established in 1658 by Peter Stuyvesant, Nieuw Haarlem lay in a lush bottomland dotted with farms like "Happy Valley" and "Quiet Vale." At first it was connected to the rest of Manhattan by a single road built with Negro labor along an Indian footpath that is now part of Broadway...
...boys emptied the wide-mouthed urn over the water, a single cannon boomed a farewell salute, the military band fell silent, and the vast crowd roared, "Nehru amar hail [Nehru is immortal]." The remainder of the ashes were scattered all over India, from the beautiful green Vale of Kashmir, which Nehru loved, to the cotton fields around Ahmadnagar Fort, where he had been imprisoned by the British. It was now clear that Nehru had known for months that he lived close to death. On a scratch pad on his desk, Nehru had neatly written the elegiac lines of Robert Frost...
Stretch'd o'er the marshy vale the willowy mound...