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...rivers threater to converge. If you wait out to the bridge's center, you can watch the harbor sparkling in the sun, listen to the automobiles drone, feel the river and the city all around you. There is no way to describe the splendor of the view. Hart Crane wrote an epic poem about the bridge, and he scarcely even tried to deal with it, writing instead of easier things like the nature of America and the meaning of its history...
...would be hard to improve on Crane's choice of a symbol, but one could argue that David McCullough's The Great Bridge, more concrete and less obscure, develops even more powerfully. The Great Bridge is the story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. It also illuminates an ora in American history and helps build a myth giving that history meaning. If in pictures did the bridge justice, the book would be complete...
Radcliffe marshals for the class of 1973 are: Lynn Sakai of North House and Altadena. Calif., first marshal; Wilsie York of North House and Danville, Va., second marshal; Charlotte Crane of Winthrop House and Plymouth. N.H., third marshal; and Meg Morgan of North House and Shrewsbury, fourth marshal...
...first-seeded Radcliffe crew came in fourth behind Vesper, Wisconsin and MIT. Charlotte Crane, Radcliffe stroke, said that she was disappointed but also said she felt Radcliffe could have done better if they had not been seeded first and could have viewed the competition more clearly...
Charlotte Crane is a senior History concentrator at Radcliffe and a dedicated member of the Radcliffe varsity crew team. Last year's co-captain, she rows on the eight-place shell which is Radcliffe's hope in the upcoming Head of the Charles race on October...