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...which appeared in the October 29, 1900, edition of Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily, was a good start for Roosevelt (by virtue of yet another longstanding Crimson tradition, he wouldn't become FDR until he officially joined the staff), but it wasn't quite enough. When the first batch of '04s joined the paper in February 1901, he was not among them--no disgrace in an era when the Crimson comp often took a year to complete, but proof nonetheless that it would take more than a relative in Washington to guarantee a spot. Or would it? The break...
...entrance of the female chorus. It is an entrance Gilbert wrote again and again: a troop of 19th-century teenyboppers--cheerful, bordering on birdbrained--appears, "gaily tripping, lightly skipping," "tripping hither, tripping hither," or, in this case, "climbing over rocky mountain, skipping rivulet and fountain." True to form, this batch of maidens comes merrily onstage, chirping away with nothing graver on their minds than their "fleeting leisure"--all except one. While her sisters hop and dance at the front of the stage, she lingers behind to collect samples of leaves and sand and record prissy little notes in a black...
Each year, the Society's senior fellows, a group of local professors (nine--including Hubel--are from Harvard, one is from MIT, and one--Helen Vendler--is a visiting professor at Harvard from Boston University), gather to select a batch of eight junior fellows for the society. These eight, according to society literature, must be "persons of exceptional ability, originality, and resourcefulness" in any academic field. Most have completed the course work for their Ph.D.'s, if they have not actually taken the degree...
...best legal and economic minds at its disposal, President François Mitterrand's Socialist Party had a full decade to plot how to fulfill a key campaign promise: the nationalization of major industries and private banks. Yet by the time the National Assembly approved the first batch of takeovers last week, 332 to 154, capitalists had found an embarrassingly gaping hole in Mitterrand's plan and put one of French banking's most glittering prizes out of reach of the Socialists...
...Boston City Hospital is still investigating the source of the poisoning. Dr. Cynthia Trumpp, an epidemiologist at the hospital, said yesterday, adding that doctors have discovered a batch of infected chicken salad but have not yet concluded that it is the source of the poisoning...