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Early in the afternoon of any Saturday when the Harvard football team is playing a home game, a procession of Harvard administrators and secretaries begins to wind its way from 60 Boylston Street across the river to the stadium at Soldiers Field. The Athletic Department staff leaves its enclave by Kirkland House en masse, to watch these contests. These are the administrators who take care of all the bureaucratic details of running a full-scale athletic program, so in a sense the games are the culmination of all their efforts...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: 60 Boylston Street: Profile of a building | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...surgeons were the ones who could cut, hack and saw most rapidly, aided by the strongest assistants to hold the patient down. Herbs and plants were extensively used in treatment. Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay prescribed a paste of wood lice, while Cotton Mather-who together with Zabdiel Boylston brought inoculation to the colonies in 1721 to prevent serious cases of smallpox-condemned the use by Boston physicians of "Leaden Bullets," to be swallowed for "that miserable Distemper which they called the Twisting of the Guts." By the early 18th century, there were only two drugs known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: The Struggle to Stay Healthy | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

Mayday. The saga of the 1971 anti-war demonstrations in Washington. Performed at the Boston Art Group Theater, 367 Boylston St. in Boston. Performances Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., beginning July...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Stage | 7/16/1976 | See Source »

Player Piano. Vonnegut presented at the New Boston Repertory Theatre, One Boylston Place in Boston, through July 18. Performances Wednesday through Sunday at 8:08 p.m. Tickets...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Stage | 7/16/1976 | See Source »

Winner Take All. New musical at the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston St. in Boston., through July 24. Performances Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2 p.m. Tickets...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Stage | 7/16/1976 | See Source »

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