Four women kept a meticulous diary of their stay on Great Brewster Island in July of 1891.That diary, a prized collection of the Schlesinger Library, offers an unusual perspective into the daily lives of 19th century women and leisure habits of the era. Audio slide show: "A 19th Century 'Excellent Adventure'"
Fellows range from economists developing a new way to evaluate economic policies and actions to an avant-garde visual artist working on multimedia art.
Daven Presgraves RI '09 was drawn to the Radcliffe Institute partly because the effort to analyze the DNA sequence of the fruit fly Drosophila mauritiana is centered at Harvard.
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