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Hutchins notes that the early stage of planning means that "we can plan with the architect...
...African-American intellectual is the Person of the Century for me. Du Bois was the first black Ph.D. from Harvard; he was one of the founding fathers of the field of sociology. He helped establish the N.A.A.C.P. and edited its journal, The Crisis, for 24 years. He was an architect of the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement, and throughout his life brilliantly fought against racial discrimination and for the full participation of blacks in American society. He conceived of the Encyclopedia Africana, a comprehensive history of the African diaspora. He was a staunch opponent (with Bertrand Russell...
...less like a piano and more like something imagined by Rube Goldberg. Especially in back problems, doctors are increasingly faced with patients experiencing excrutiating pain that has no discernable physical origins. An October article in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande detailed the story of Rowland Scott Quinlan, an architect who experienced back pain so acute that he would vomit and for whom movement was so painful that he would often soil himself instead of getting up to go to the bathroom. But X-rays, C.T. scans and myriad other tests revealed nothing that could possibly account for the pain...
...Kidder's fond but unsentimental book. The author's great gift, in fact, is for looking at his subjects straight on. He did this impressively in The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the development of a supermini-computer, and in House (1985), about the jostling interchanges among architect, builders and buyers of a private home...
...student center. In light of the need, and desire, for a Harvard Student Center, the Undergraduate Council has called on the University for the following: make the Student center a priority on the next capital campaign and thereby commit to a timetable for its construction, hire an architect and begin drafting plans, and establish a planning committee with student members. By agreeing to take these steps, the administration will have acknowledged the pressing needs felt on campus and will also have begun the process of returning its focus towards improving the quality of undergraduate life on this campus...