"Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society."

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Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”

Elizabeth Hardwick

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