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...meet a professor and treat him well.”Although some students’ reactions to the beauty pageant seem to indicate a challenge to traditional gender conventions, the protest was far from radical. But such action was not limited to the pageant. In 1959, Radcliffe women would start to quietly question norms of domesticity through similarly muted means—and the Radcliffe they knew, and the world they lived in during their undergraduate years—would soon become a vestige of a bygone era.BEGINNING TO BEND THE RULESOver a dozen members of the Radcliffe class...
...RISE REALITYPrior to Quincy’s construction fifty years ago, 1,200 additional students were living in Harvard undergraduate housing above the number the dorms were built to accommodate. In response to the deepening housing shortage in 1957, President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 announced the start of ‘A Program for Harvard College,’ an effort that resulted in three additions to the undergraduate residential structure: Quincy House in 1959, Leverett Towers in 1960, and Mather House in 1970. To solve the problem of over-crowding, a central initiative of his administration...
...hometown of Richmond, Ky., on August 23, 2008—a date they said they picked because it was the only one that worked with their schedules of working in their labs, studying for the MCATS, and DeCoste-Lopez’s brother’s start date for his freshman year at Transylvania University. The ceremony displayed a fusion of the bride’s and groom’s disparate cultural backgrounds. Because Lopez’s family is Catholic and primarily Spanish-speaking and DeCoste-Lopez’s family is Protestant and English-speaking, the wedding...
...Gottlieb said. Gottlieb met Smith during their sophomore year of high school in Rochester, N.Y., but Gottlieb says “you can’t really quite classify us as high school sweethearts.” They kept in touch when Gottlieb came to Harvard and Smith started school at Michigan State University, but they only started dating last year, when Smith came to visit Gottlieb in Boston for dinner in the North End and a walk around the city. The couple will tie the knot on June 26, 2010, Gottlieb said, adding that they’re still...
...Harvard, the greatest thing you can think of is a breakfast quesadilla?KS: I’ve actually never had one.RR: ...KS: I’ve never eaten a sunrise breakfast quesadilla.RR: So you lied?KS: I’m sorry. I was disingenuous.RR: Let’s start over. And let’s be honest this time. What will you miss most about Harvard? KS: I should have thought more about this. And about my life in general. Who am I? What am I doing here?RR: I did not ask any of those questions.KS: Hm.RR: I think...