Word: atkinson
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Probably no one in the University's central administration has a smaller office than Steven H. Atkinson '67, executive director of the University Committee on Patents and Copyrights (CPC). Tucked away in a corner of Holyoke Center, the tiny cubicle seems to rebel against the image of the huge, omnipotent University. But out of that little room have emanated almost all of Harvard's big successes in the area of technology transfer...
Created by the University in the mid-1970s to help patent and copyright their discoveries and inventions, the CPC has evolved into an organ that spends 90 per cent of its time on technology transfer, Atkinson says...
...Linda Atkinson plays a strange trick on Cherubino, the page with the hormonal imbalance who shouts his love to every woman he meets and whose boyish-girlish looks in turn enchant all the women around him. Atkinson turns this romantic dreamer with ideals dripping from his doublet into a sort of Dennis the Menace of the ancien regime. At first blush, you can't help wondering how this marginally pubescent page would go about kissing one of his idols--he'd have to spit out his bubblegum first. But Atkinson's verve and charm finally overcome the improbability...
What is unique about Kelly girls is that last year's roster of Ivy League women coaches reads like a Who's Who of Vesper alumni. Kathy Laurel at Penn. Eve Atkinson at Yale, Janey Barkmen at Princeton, and Harvard's Walsh all swam under Kelly...
...Boston had to have a memorial. A committee was formed. Blacks donated pennies. As the war receded, however, the momentum died. The pennies -$7,511 in all-were invested. In 1883 one of the few surviving committeemen, Edward Atkinson, noted that the pennies had grown to $16,656.21. He and three other Brahmins formed a new committee and commissioned the young Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create a memorial. Saint-Gaudens envisioned a giant equestrian statue. The Shaws objected. They wanted their son portrayed together with his men. Saint-Gaudens designed a relief of the regiment on the march...