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...organized its construction during the summer of 2006, said he wanted to create a social scene at Harvard that doesn’t revolve around drinking. According to Rinaudo, the climbing wall has been very popular among students even before this event. “The goal is to build community, so when I leave, there are still motivated people to take over,” said Rinaudo, who is also an officer of the Harvard Mountaineering Club. The wall is regularly open seven days a week from 5 to 11 p.m. “It?...
...group also hopes to build an Islamic center that would include a mosque and dining area to cater to Muslim students and serve as a resource about Islam for the Harvard community. The building would be similar to existing religious centers, including Hillel and the Catholic Student Center...
...George Pierce Baker came to Harvard and starting teaching a playwriting class where he taught the likes of Eugene O’Neill. More significantly, he started the Harvard Dramatics Club in 1908. According to Brustein, Pierce was offered an alumni donation of $1,000,000 to build a theatre at Harvard and allow the students in his playwriting class to mount their works.Yet university officials, still entrenched in intellectual prejudices against the study of dramatic works, scoffed at what they felt would be a frivolous pre-professional program.Baker went to New Haven to establish the Yale School of Drama...
...Photographs. Daron J. Manoogian, a spokesman for HUAM, emphasizes the importance and scale of the gift. “The Newman studio materials are the most significant gift the Center has received,” he says. Harvard created CTSMA in 2001 as part of an initiative to build a new museum for modern and contemporary art. Today, with the original proposals long forgotten and the current plans for a museum in Allston postponed, CTSMA has a slightly different role from the one proponents envisioned. “At this point, it is more a virtual reality than a physical...
...free mega rink is the brainchild of leftist Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, as part of his campaign to make this heaving mountain capital a more pleasant environment. Last spring, he shipped in tons of sand to build four urban beaches that were also a hit with residents, while inspiring dozens of comedy skits about plump sunbathers walking through gridlocked traffic. Ebrard has also built miles of cycle paths, on which he's posed for cameras atop his mountain bike on sunny Sundays...