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...Good Friday was postponed to this past Saturday and renamed a toga party. While the Freshman Dean’s Office has no oversight over FYSC events, Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 “voiced his disapproval,” according to FYSC chair Zachary A.Y. Pollinger ’09. “His primary concern was the use of Straus Common Room, which was inadequate for the turn out FYSC events see,” Pollinger said. Dingman said that while he admired the work of the FYSC, the committee...
...informing them that the TLR would be converted to a reading room and the art studio to a party space. But not everyone in the House supports the plan. Jonathan C. Bardin ’06, who spearheaded the plans last semester when he was Currier House Committee co-chair, said that Currier is the only house without a library or a reading room, even though “the Harvard literature states that every house has one.” The Currier House website lists the Bingham lower main room and rooms located on the first floors of Tuchman...
...qualities of leadership, a devotion to excellence in education and research, a capacity to guide a complex institution through a time of significant change, and a dedication to the ideals and values central to a community of learning,” James R. Houghton ’58, the chair of the committee, wrote in the letter. The same sentence was included in an August 2000 letter, with the only differences being the use of the word “vital” in lieu of “central,” and an omitted...
...transgender population is small compared to the size of the entire community. This detracts, however, from neither the symbolic value of the statement nor the real impact it will have on those directly affected by the new policy. According to Ryan A. Thoreson ’07, co-chair of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transsgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) and a member of the TTF, prevailing societal opinions now make publicly indentifying as transgender extremely difficult. “The change in code signals a willingness on the part of Harvard to think progressively about these issues and recognize...
...person told her, "You look just like the Queen!" "How reassuring," she replied. When a visiting head of state managed to slip out of Buckingham Palace overnight, she quipped: "Has he taken his wife?" She can laugh at herself too, as when a new footman pulled back her chair as she stood up after a family dinner, but then immediately went to sit down again to continue a conversation and hit the floor. The whole family found this uproarious (but she also made sure to reassure the mortified footman...