Word: agassiz
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...Though Harvard is a tax-exempt non-profit, it rakes in a truckload of money in the form of tourism, which in turn feeds the local economy. And then there are the subsidies. Take a look at the millions and millions that Harvard will be shelling out to the Agassiz neighborhood (near the law school) for special projects over the next few years. According to census data, this pristine wilderness already has the second highest household income of all of Cambridge’s thirteen neighborhoods. But in an informal neighborhood poll conducted two years ago, residents voted...
...Though Harvard is a tax-exempt non-profit, it rakes in a truckload of money in the form of tourism, which in turn feeds the local economy. And then there are the subsidies. Take a look at the millions and millions that Harvard will be shelling out to the Agassiz neighborhood (near the law school) for special projects over the next few years. According to census data, this pristine wilderness already has the second highest household income of all of Cambridge’s thirteen neighborhoods. But in an informal neighborhood poll conducted two years ago, residents voted...
...neither office nor salary. But from her place, flanked by former Harvard presidents William Stoughton and Nathan M. Pusey, University Hall’s newest addition—a portrait of Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, the first president of Radcliffe College—will stare intimidatingly down upon the denizens of the Faculty Room, after its installation at a ceremony yesterday afternoon...
...Agassiz, a naturalist and pioneer of women’s education, presided over the fledgling Radcliffe College from 1882-1900, and then served three more years as honorary president. The fourth-ever female member of the American Philosophical Society, Agassiz was instrumental in the establishment of the school...
Radcliffe began with 45 Harvard professors who agreed, per her request, to give advanced instruction to Cambridge girls. It was still not a degree-granting institution until, according to current Dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study Drew Gilpin Faust. Agassiz then began paying almost daily visits to then-Harvard president Charles W. Eliot. In 1882, Radcliffe College was born...