Word: walls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal" with my hair except getting it cut and occasionally combing it. I lived in the predominantly black and Latino Mt. Pleasant area of Washington, D.C., and attended basically a black elementary school. We did not see anything strange about our hair. But, in 1989, the year the Berlin wall came crashing down, so did my world of stress-free hair existence when I enrolled in the predominantly white Sidwell Friends School...
Mather is blessed with high ceilings, a wall of windows, large chairs and generous aisles between tables, and large chairs. An illusion of a massive space is created, spacious and light filled. Big people in DHA sweats fit in inconspicuously and look virtually regular size, their bulk reduced to normalcy in the amply sized room. The architecture was to scale with the fast disappearing old guard of Mather athletes. Meanwhile, the new Matherites, an assorted bunch of sensitive artist/musicians, literally rattle around in the big room...
...where Henry and William James once read the works of Swedenborg, on the side of Emerson Hall is inscribed a quotation from the eighth psalm, "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" President Lowell commissioned the inscription, overruling the original request of the Philosophy Department that the wall read, "Man is the measure of all things." It seems that Harvard, in planning the Knafel Center, is operating on the probable truth of the latter statement, but even if man is the measure of all things, there should be some sense of decent proportion...
...casual shopper will find more perfume at Billings & Stover than in a duty-free store, while the back wall is dedicated to a pharmacy/apothecary. The right side of the aisle, on the other hand, could be mistaken for any other drug-store in the Square, though the occasional oddities, like Santa Claus troll dolls, are tucked here and there...
Perhaps one of the closest races of the meet could be the 200 Breaststroke. With several women see-sawing back and forth in dual meet victories and losses, all of the teams will be watching the finish wall closely...