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...plans presented at the meeting, they accused the University of neglecting more specific issues of concern. “What I see tonight is a lot of responsiveness from the design standpoints that have already been raised,” said Carter Wilkie, a member of the Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association Board of Directors. “But we’ve sort of danced around the elephant in the room,” he added. “I’m concerned that we haven’t really gotten into the meaty issues...
...spree” in Wellesley refers to their “party house,” that year the Longfellow House in Wellesley Hills. As described in The Club’s by-laws, each year the members rented a home in an upscale suburb, like Wellesley, Gloucester, or Lincoln. There, they’d host “house parties” every few weeks. These parties were no mere daytrip; they usually lasted from Friday evening to Sunday morning. In addition, members also often congregated in the homes of other members...
...most of the Harvard community basked in Friday’s sun, more than 50 students and faculty members absorbed the fluorescent lighting of Longfellow Hall in order to hear a four-hour “teach-in” about the ramifications of Hurricane Katrina.The teach-in, sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, brought together a dozen experts on crisis response, disaster management, and human rights to address what they called a mismanagement of the Katrina threat. In three panels, the group of experts, which included two former residents of New Orleans, discussed the humanitarian issues that the hurricane...
...Harvard Humanitarian Initiative will host this open series of discussions. Panelists from the Harvard faculty will discuss humanitarianism, FEMA, disaster relief, and human rights. Friday, September 30, noon-4:00 p.m. in Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian...
...poem was called "Ode to Grapefruit." It no longer exists, even in my memory. But I do remember that the last line was written in the cadence of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "and-my-bel-ly-full-of-grape-fruit." I don't know whether Professor Crouch did it as a trick, but he got me to talk. He had a conviction that if you like words, you should be able to say them out loud. Reading my poems out loud helped me to speak and to deal with my stutter...