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...spring of 1791 they took a vacation from their jobs as Secretary of State and Congressman to make a tour of New York and New England, ostensibly to collect botanical specimens but in fact to look for political allies. One they found was the supple young New York Senator Aaron Burr. They might better have left him alone. In the presidential election of 1800, Burr morphed from Jefferson's running mate to his (unsuccessful) challenger for the White House itself...
...With reporting by Aaron J. Klein/Tel Aviv
...recipients include Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, a drop-out of Harvard College; former University President Lawrence H. Summers; former Harvard Corporation member Conrad K. Harper; Harvard history professor Daniel Aaron; British astronomer S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell; philosopher Richard M. Rorty; Celtics star center Bill Russell; gender historian Joan W. Scott; New York Review of Books founding editor Robert B. Silvers; and University of Texas mathematician Karen K. Uhlenbeck. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...Others [non-students] all became quite vocal about theater and quite vocal about the fact that Harvard did not have a theater,” Aaron says, recalling the determination of then Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy to secure a dedicated performance space for students...
Though the theater was not opened until 1960, three years after Aaron and his classmates had already left Harvard, the Loeb Drama Center still stands as a reminder of the theatrical Class...