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...Houghton Mifflin...
Fiction or not, Bass's work is all of a piece, a desperate, eloquent defense of wild places, and it is not surprising to find that his first novel, Where the Sea Used to Be (Houghton Mifflin; 464 pages; $25), grows from the same earth. He used the identical title for a short story about a mystical oil geologist who, like the novel's hero, can see oil beneath mountains. The lead female character, a woman strong enough to ski for miles carrying a grown man on her back, could be the daughter of a yeti-like succubus...
...Houghton says she and her husband simply wanted to enhance the undergraduate experience, without making a distinction between the two colleges...
...addition to the Houghton and the TerrieFried Bloom endowments, Amy Smith Berylson '75endowed a fund in her name during the last term.While Berylson declined to comment on the size ofthe endowment, Avery says the gift will fund anannual lecture featuring women professionals in avariety of fields...
...great to dedicate a gate to women, andit's great to have the Houghton gift," Schmertzlersays. "But the University must show a sustainedcommitment to bringing equality to women in everyfacet of the University...