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According to the JBHE, black professors compose a smaller portion—2.7 percent—of the total faculty at Harvard than at every other Ivy except Princeton...
...street, you can buy witch figurines and candleholders at the local souvenir shop. In Essex Square, the town’s main drag, there is the usual array of fried dough and roasted nut stands common to county fairs everywhere. Salem is much like any other tourist trap, except when you remember what happened here. 25 dead. 200 imprisoned. The trials the Massachusetts State Legislature referred to as “those dark and severe Prosecutions,” when it officially pardoned the witches...
...forest.” Granted, I haven’t spent much time in the New England forest, but I didn’t recall it having wall-to-wall carpet. We assemble, strollers and all, in front of a tableau of Pilgrim girls dancing devilishly in the woods. Except that they’re not moving. At all. They’re made of wax. Strange recorded laughter echoes from a visible boom box as the wax statues cavort as best they can in their stationary manner. After a reverent two seconds at this display, everyone moves...
...inside its gates. The tradition started in 1969 when the University administration crumbled under the pressure of antiwar protestors and ejected the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC) from campus. And ever since, the Paul Revere Battalion has not existed on Harvard’s campus in any appreciable way, except via the school’s graceful permissiveness of Harvard students to become cadets...
Joslin, a resident of Kerry Corner, said the agreement sets height limits of 35 feet everywhere except for a plot on Cowperthwaite Street, where the height would rise to 45 to 55 feet. According to Joslin, residents are willing to allow a taller building on that site because it is an ideal location for a dorm, but they hope the agreement will include more stringent restrictions on the size of buildings on other neighborhood plots...