Word: watsons
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Rebeccah G. Watson ’04, RUS co-president, said the group invited Faust to speak because Radcliffe is relevant to their mission as a group representing the interests of undergraduate women...
...Despite the fact Radcliffe has become an Institute, there are so many issues that the Institute deals with that are essential to RUS concerns,” Watson said...
...Watson said the group’s talk with Faust was helpful in giving them information they would not necessarily know otherwise—such as the existence of teams of Faculty that look at the lack of women professors...
...pitched squeal” which “did not go with his generous bulk.” The Biological Labs of Harvard “reeked of ’30s mustiness,” and Linus Pauling is “a popelike figure.” Watson evidently delights in gossip. He almost gleefully describes Peter Pauling’s predicament after an amorous episode results in a pregnancy, and then a marriage, asking “Would he have ever willingly committed himself to a monogamous institution that he was inherently unsuited...
Through fifteen years, Watson himself was thoroughly suited for—or rather, desperately sought—that monogamous institution. In spring of 1967, he met Elizabeth Lewis, a Radcliffe sophomore, and married her in March of 1968, shortly before his fortieth birthday. His sexist pomposity leaks through in a postcard to a friend: “19-year-old now mine.” Despite its readability and lighthearted melodrama, the book is ultimately hurt by Watson’s own egoism. His final description of the woman with enough fortitude to marry him does little to neutralize...