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...Harvard last fall, I encountered a situation that had been developing for several years. The impetus for the move to the QRAC started in 1999, when the new dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Drew Faust decided to reclaim the buildings of Radcliffe for the Institute, including Agassiz House and the Rieman Center, which Harvard’s Dance Program had been renting from the Institute for offices and studio/performance space...
Mayr, who was born in Kempten, Germany, in 1904, was a member of the Harvard faculty for over half a century. He joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) as Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in 1953 after holding a position at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He was also curator of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology from...
Scott V. Edwards, a student of Mayr’s and his successor to the Agassiz professorship, remembered his first encounter with his mentor. It was prior to his own overseas research, when Mayr told him to “write, write, write...
...Agassiz Theatre. Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m., Thursday 8 p.m. Through Saturday, April 16. Evenings $12/$10 regular, $8/$6 students and seniors; matinees $10/$8 regular, $6/$4 students and seniors; Thursday show $4 with student ID. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRGSP) opened the comic opera Princess Ida yesterday, at Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard. The HRGSP spring production is the biggest budget theatrical performance on campus next to the Hasty Pudding...