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Dinners with the faculty in Victorian manors, bearded men in smoking jackets, pretentious banter over sherry carts—you won’t find any of these august fixtures in the Philosophy concentration. (There’s always the Divinity School and the Society of Fellows for that.) What you will find—in typical Harvard fashion—is a motley assortment of young and old minds passionately interested in what they do and, perhaps, a little out of step with the rest of the university. Even basic intellectual expression in the Philosophy department offers unique challenges...
ARTHUR BALFOUR AND ROBERT CECIL Ever heard the saying "Bob's your uncle"? It means "no problem" and refers to Cecil, a Victorian Prime Minister who named Balfour, his nephew, to a series of Cabinet posts...
...Teddy's sister Bamie on Long Island. After T.R. remarried, this time to his childhood sweetheart Edith Carow, Alice went to live with the couple and was eventually joined by five siblings. Teddy never mentioned Alice's deceased mother, a behavior Alice grew to describe as "dreadfully Victorian and mixed...
...even if it meant the hard work of selling assets, overhauling management and reinvesting in the core company, hardly the typical Italian way of doing business. "This country paid a great tribute to my grandfather," Elkann said. "It was a family feeling to respond." Though it unfolds like a Victorian play, Elkann insists that his ascendancy to the Fiat throne was "very natural." Born in New York City and raised in Britain, Brazil and France, he returned to his parents' hometown of Turin to study engineering at the rigorous Politecnico University. That was when Elkann began to pass Sundays...
...drive southwest of Boston, will find many answers to that question. Think of Providence as an eminently walkable museum - bring good shoes to handle the hills and cobblestones - with exhibits built in clapboard, bricks and mortar. One must-stroll is Benefit Street, lined with colonial-era houses and grand Victorian mansions that radiate the wealth of the 1800s, when Providence was a jewelry and textile center. There's good people watching here, too: Providence is home to the liberal bastion (and the I-can-be-funkier-than-you students) of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. RISD...