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...Abbott “Tom” Gleason ’60, Harbison’s college roommate of three years, put on live jazz performances with Gleason on WHRB. According to Gleason, Harbison was not one to advertise his musical talent...
...powwow is a celebration of native songs and dance,” says Steven H. Abbott, Associate Director for Recruitment and Student Affairs at the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP). “It’s really about celebrating the community that’s here at Harvard, as well as the larger community here in the Boston and New England area...
...Abbott agrees that the Powwow is an excellent means to show the continued importance of Native Americans in contemporary culture. “It’s very important for people to understand that native people are their friends, their colleagues, their coworkers,” he says. “Often native communities are locked in people’s opinion in an historical context, so that’s one of the things we hope people will take away. We hope they’ll see their peers in a slightly different context...
Harvard’s attitude towards homosexuality has changed dramatically over the past century. In 1920, the University, under the leadership of Abbott L. Lowell, Class of 1877, established a secret court to discover and expel homosexuals within the community. During the 1950s, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Wilbur J. Bender ’27, tried to improve the admission office’s “ability to detect homosexual tendencies and serious psychiatric problems.” Now, sexual orientation is again becoming a controversial subject for elite college admissions officers. The LGBT...
...December 7, 1922, Roscoe Conkling Bruce, a black Harvard graduate from the class of 1902, wrote to Abbott Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877 and the University’s 22nd President, to ask whether his son might be allowed to reside in a previously all-white freshman dorm. Lowell was a self-described "friend of the negro," but this request seemed clearly beyond the pale. "I am sure you will understand," wrote Lowell to the concerned father, "why we have not thought it possible to compel men of different races to live together...