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...statement yesterday by Vellucci was in response to Bok's rejection of the council's request that he testify on Harvard's building and development plans for the Agassiz neighborhood, located north of the Law School...
Graham also said she thought Bok refused to reveal Harvard's specific building plans for the Agassiz area because he did not want to prompt support for a measure before the council that would rezone the neighborhood...
When residents in the Agassiz neighborhood north of the Law School saw Harvard development plans this summer, they weren't very pleased to see the red lines drawn around their community...
...special exhibitions. Currently on display: "Photography Unlimited"--through Oct. 16, unusual and sometimes disturbing experimental images by contemporary photographers. Also: "19th and 20th Century American Portraits in Prints, Drawing and Sculpture"--through September. Artists exhibited include Sargent, Copley and Whistler--a great chance to find out what Louis Agassiz really looked like. Todd McKie, who last year drew some snide comments for his cartoon-like watercolors in a show at the Museum of Fine Arts, is featured in "Contemporary Boston Artists: Works on paper", through Sept. 29 on the drawing balcony. I was one who disdained his long-nosed humanoid...
This schizophrenia, however, had been present since Radcliffe's birth. As far back as 1879, there had been such a thing as a "Harvard girl." And although the term, coined by President Agassiz, was used by almost no one else, it foreshadowed the course of the alliance between the two bastions of higher education--the one for men and the one for women--and the dubious position held by Radcliffe women throughout the history of the school...