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Undergraduate summers are the time for serious reading. I would urge students to read as much as they can of Edward Gibbon's?? The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, still the greatest work of historical writing in English. The combination of erudition and irony is exquisite. It is also an invaluable guide to the symptoms of imperial decline, which could come in handy in the years ahead...
...choice is Zora Neale Hurston's?? Their Eyes Were Watching God. For those many undergraduates who have read it already, read it again. It is the richest novel and bears numerous re-readings. For those who haven't read it yet, get a copy, and enjoy...
...author of the list, a Harvard grad, compiled it years ago, so some restaurants—like Qdoba, Boloco, and Oggi’s??€”are noticeably absent. There are also some amusing relics of the past, like the name "Mr. & Mrs. Bartley's Burger Cottage...
...Harvard, the bronze-medal finish represented a repeat of last year’s effort at IRA’s??€”the third time the Crimson has medaled at the event in four seasons...
Excerpt: “By establishing a close correlation between such disparate Southern Renaissance writers as Faulkner and O’Connor we can begin to appreciate the power of the ‘old child’s??€™ significance. This [...] motif merits our closer examination—first because it is a figure which recurs throughout the literature of this period and second, because the ‘old child’ represents these Southern Renaissance writers need to dramatize the bitter argument that rages within them...