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Life’s Beginnings • Learning from the Liberal Arts September-OctOber 2013 • $4.95 TThehe PersistencePersistence ofof PrintPrint Helen Vendler Arion Press & The Radcliffe Campaign Invest in Ideas launching october 28, 2013 photo by stu rosner To Sid and Susan, and to each member of the Institute’s advisory councils, thank you for your visionary leadership as we further our mission to advance new ideas and to share them widely. As A great university needs a place where we look to the Institute’s future, we have ambitious thinkers from across its campus and around plans to increase our the globe come together to take risks, explore photo by kathleen dooher photo by kathleen impact on students and new ideas, and connect theory and practice. faculty at Harvard and audiences around the world— through our highly selective Fellowship Program, At Harvard, the Radcliffe Institute is that the preeminent Schlesinger Library on the History place and is contributing to the future of of Women in America, groundbreaking research Harvard’s excellence and leadership. initiatives organized by our Academic Ventures program, and a full calendar of public events. Sidney R. 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