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...University and a graduate of the class of 1920. Students may giggle when we say its name out loud, and any who visit know it is underground, but Pusey’s secret is that it is an architectural feat. Upon completion in 1970, Pusey was one of America??€™s few underground libraries. In order to build the library underground, anchored in the surrounding bedrock, the building had to be attached to the bedrock with a series of steel beams. Without these beams, the library would literally rise up from its underground location.THE BARKER CENTERCompleted...
...Aidan Kelly ’08, a former chair of Fifteen Minutes magazine, is a 2008 Teach for America??€”Greater New Orleans corps member...
...USPSA is a civilian counterpart to our military academies. But, instead of military officers, the academy will admit America??€™s best and brightest students and eventually produce an entire generation of effective and efficient leaders in local, state, and national government. Via a competitive admissions process akin to the military academies—where admissions rates can be lower than Harvard’s—students would earn a four-year scholarship to study liberal arts as well as a specific public service field. At its full capacity, the academy would serve approximately 5000 students a year...
...national public service academy was first championed by George Washington. Retired from his own stint of government service, and living out his days at Mt. Vernon, he still regaled visitors with a plan for a national college that would train America??€™s future government leaders. The idea was recorded in his will but never came to fruition. Now is the time to fulfill Washington’s original call to service...
...Monday afternoon in Quincy House, a large audience of Harvard students and faculty was spellbound by a five-foot-tall, 79-year-old mother of 11 children. Dolores Huerta, president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America??€”although delicate in appearance—exudes the calm passion and power that distinguishes leaders of her incredible historical stature. The daughter of a waitress and a coal miner, Señora Huerta’s lifelong fight for social justice is, as David G. Hernandez ’09 puts...