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Chronofile:
"By 1917 I was convinced that, unannounced by any authority, a much greater environmental transformation was beginning to take place in our generation’s unfolding experience than had occurred, for instance, between my (redacted) father’s, grandfather’s, great-grandfather’s, and great-great grandfather’s successive generations. Their writings contain glimpses of their lives in their successive undergraduate days in the classes of 1760, 1801, 1840, and 1883 at Harvard. They tell of day-long trips walking or driving from Cambridge to Boston via Watertown Bridge.
“As in 1913, in Fair Harvard’s ‘Age that is past/Surrendered her o’er (once more)/ To the age that’ was ‘waiting before,’ I felt intuitively in our Freshman year that the subway, which then opened to connect Cambridge and Boston by a seven-minute ride, was a harbinger of an entirely new distance-time relationship of humanity and its transforming environment.”
