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...library. The mysteries—not just of Pusey 3 or of the hallowed top-floor faculty offices, but even of the frescoes and the memorial room—will remain the domain of those with a precious university affiliation. Nonetheless, as the university plans its growth into Allston, the needs of visitors should not be ignored. To an important extent, Harvard is a public institution, and its halls must be thought of also as public spaces. Pursuing ever more exalting and inaccessible tasks makes it far too easy to forget our necessary affiliations with the rest of society. However...
Weatherhead said the idea for this endowment was hatched during a June meeting with University President Lawrence H. Summers, who has put science and technology at the top of his agenda for University expansion into Allston...
...University has said that some of the money from the endowment will be used to fund science and technology projects for Allston. In mid-December, a task force chaired by University Provost Steven E. Hyman will choose what resources to include in the new campus from among 17 different plans...
...make assignments merit based, Gordon said the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) should be endowed independently of the FAS and that this should be the University’s highest priority in its upcoming fundraising drive, even above funding for the new campus to be built in Allston...
...Harvard Corporation appointed Summers the 27th president of Harvard. During his tenure, Summers has spoken about anti-semitism in higher education, began planning for a major science campus in the Allston neighborhood of Boston and advocating tenuring younger faculty at Harvard...