Word: landmarking
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...match was something of a landmark in Harvard golf, as a freshman woman Leslie Greis played number one. She lost her match five and four. However, she had her moment in the spotlight when she stood on the same first tee where Walter Hagen began his playoff round to win the U.S. Open in 1919, and outdrove both her male opponents before the players from all three squads...
...Fogg did become a sort of landmark for me, though. It was the halfway mark, the red line, the 50-yard stripe, the seventh-inning stretch. (Three out of four...
Alan Lupo's Liberty's Chosen Home, a landmark study of the crisis precipitated three years ago by Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.'s decision to implement integration by busing, attempts to deal with those questions and criticisms. Lupo, an experienced Boston-bred journalist with a keen eye for detail, does not present the reader with a completely seminal work. He repeats and amplifies some of the observations Harvard's Robert Coles and the lesser-known teacher and author Kim Marshall have made about Boston's problems with busing. On balance the value of his book is that it backs...
...western expansion was Andrew Jackson. The Tennessean vaulted to the White House on the reputation he had won partly by clearing the Southern states of Indians as a major general of the militia. As President, he continued the work with a determination suggested by his celebrated defiance of a landmark decision of the Supreme Court. In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall sought to protect the Cherokee tribe in Georgia against illegal encroachments and abuses by the whites. More broadly, Marshall also established the relationship of Federal Government and Indian as guardian and ward. But this particular...
...conditions throughout society. They feel the University has been cooperative, in view of the problems it faces in meeting their requests. The age of certain buildings does not only present barriers to the disabled but makes the barriers' removal a problem as well. Sever Hall is a National Historic Landmark, and the Federal Historic Commission must grant permission before Harvard can alter the building's appearance. In Drickamer's words, "How do you put a subtle ramp on Sever...