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...great part of Harvard's allure lies in such history. As former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Archibald MacLeish wrote in 1976, "When we think now of the greatness of the University we think first of the dead," the long-gone strangers as well as the beloved friends. As a result of these people's contributions to Harvard's longevity and national importance, decisions made here carry weight far beyond their importance to the present institution. Administrators and professors know that they have an obligation to the thinkers who came before them and to those who will come after...
Rescued from the bowels of Boylston Hall, students who frequent the Language Lab will enjoy faster, computerized services, more comfortable chairs and a view of the Yard when the sixth floor of Lamont Library becomes a linguistic penthouse next year...
Ergonomically adjustable versions of the carrels now in Boylston's basement, each with a networked computer, will line the windowed walls, giving students instant access to their exercises as well as to other software...
...move of the language lab is part of a larger renovation scheduled for Boylston in connection with the renovations of the Barker Center for the Humanities. After the lab moves, five humanities departments will be housed in Boylston...
...Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Henri Cole--and poets living in the Boston area, like Derek Walcott, Frank Bidart and new Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Harvard also boasts such nationally acclaimed critics as Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler and Fredric Wertham professor Barbara Johnson. And the university's Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position often held by practicing poets, is presently occupied by recent Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney...