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Libby Pierpont held the dubious distinction of participating in the longest match of the day (or night). In the second position, she and Pam Smith split two close sets before the black curtain fell. Improvising, the coaches agreed to play a nine-point tiebreaker to end the marathon, five games into the third...
...control of the Lyric. "In the end I was the most powerful," she recalls with characteristic bluntness. In a field short on long runs, Fox has not only exceeded Rudolf Bing's 22-year reign at the Metropolitan Opera but made the Lyric by far the longest-lasting company in Chicago's rich operatic history...
...itself. Now do the same with the second side. OK. Now measure the third side. OK, now you've made a clean sweep, measuring-wise. Now, multiply the measurement of the third side by itself. (Oh, by the way, make sure the third side you take is the longest side--that's the only "catch.") Now, add up the first two "squares." Compare them with the third "square" you have, and compare the difference. The difference is how smart you are (your "IQ") for doing this in the first place. Besides, I was only kidding about my roommate...
Several other seniors mentioned that their decision to write a thesis was partly because it represents a challenge, as probably the longest and most difficult piece of work of their four years here. Almost everyone, whatever their reason for writing a thesis, a agreed it would be a lot of work...
Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 turned in what is probably among the longest Government theses ever written at Harvard; his magnum opus, on "The Meaning of History," ran for 383 pages, plus bibliography--and that was after he had cut out two chapters, in an effort to shorten it. The effort won Kissinger a summa, but not the gratitude of some of those in the department who did not want to read it all, and some years ago a maximum page limit was set to avoid the problem in the future...