Word: vassar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Volleyball at vassar Tournament...
...returned to Harvard in 1936 and taught at the University until 1970. Dow was a member of the Classics and History departments. After retiring from Harvard in 1970, he taught at Boston College as Distinguished Professor of Greek Civilization and History from 1970 to 1977, and at Vassar College as Blegen Distinguished Professor...
...York was jumping, especially for jazz musicians, black marketeers and left-wing intellectuals. McCarthy, then a 32-year-old short-story writer, reviewer and wife of critic Edmund Wilson, was making the most of it. She had come to the red-hot center by way of Seattle and Vassar, class of '33. Arendt, a German Jew, had been an outstanding student at Marburg University, where she was the lover of her mentor, the philosopher Martin Heidegger. She arrived in the U.S. in 1941, escaping probable death in the Holocaust...
...Fencing at Princeton (w/Columbia. Vassar...
Only when we distance ourselves from the people in question and deny that their humanity makes any demands on our sympathy--only when we see those Vassar students as men and not as people--do we dare to callously declare that their suffering should be a learning experience...