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...intensified the University’s plans to establish a second campus across the Charles River in Allston. Just last week, Harvard announced the site and architect of its first science building there...
Summers “led us into the right direction in terms of renewed commitment to undergraduate education, in terms of setting the stage for Allston construction, and in terms of making Harvard a major player for the life sciences in the 21st century,” Glaeser said...
Harvard spokeswoman Lauren Marshall wrote in an e-mail Sunday evening: “The development of Allston is an important partnership between the city of Boston and Harvard, and we were delighted with the Mayor’s decision to highlight and embrace Harvard’s Allston announcement in his speech before 1000 city leaders, which dictated the timing of the announcement...
...Faculty, too, gathers in a specified place at a specified time. Its members arrive with all sorts of things to discuss, and perhaps some have even done their homework. Learning, or at least the illusion of it, awaits—will Summers give them a presentation on Allston or will outgoing FAS Dean William C. Kirby issue a report on the Curricular Review? But despite the collection of brilliant minds in a single place, in this section, just like an undergrad meeting, the discussion devolves, and we are left with an atonal chorus of voices all screaming past each other...
...think it's entirely possible, in 30 years, that oddly, despite all this mess, this will be seen as a very successful presidency that led us into the right direction in terms of renewed commitment to undergraduate education, in terms of setting the stage for Allston construction, and in terms of making Harvard a major player for the life sciences in the 21st century," Glaeser said...