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...offers 541 letters selected from the more than 3,000 assembled by her editor Robert Giroux. The book amounts to a kind of daily autobiography, with none of the reshaping that memory can impose. Bishop loved sending and receiving mail. "I sometimes wish," she wrote while a student at Vassar, "that I had nothing, or little more, to do but write letters to the people who are not here." This sentence proved prophetic; by accident or design, she spent much of her life in places where her friends were...
Bishop knew even before college that she would be a poet, and the task she set herself while at Vassar -- "to develop a manner of one's own, to say the most difficult things and to be funny if possible" -- remained the same throughout her career. She sought out Marianne Moore as a mentor, but she did not always take the older poet's technical advice: "I'm afraid I was quite ungracious in that I accepted most of your suggestions but refused some -- that seems almost worse than refusing all assistance...
Muller says Harvard's facilities are worse than those of Vassar College, from which she graduated in 1991. "They certainly had more Stairmasters, and the buildings was cleaner and more modern," she says...
Staebler and company were aglow in part bacause the Crimson's 15-3, 15-12, 15-10 win came after an odd encounter with the men from Rhode Island earlier this season. At a tournament at Vassar earlier this season, the Crimson played a rough game against a less-than-stellar Concordia. Throughout the game, the roger Williams players, waiting for their game to begin, sat at courtside laughing at the Crimson's poor play...
...Volleyball at Vassar Tournament...