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...their book, “General Education in a Free Society,” the authors of the 1945 curricular reform at Harvard lamented: “As recently as a century ago no doubt existed about [the] purpose [of general education]: it was to train the Christian citizen??[But] this enviable certainty has largely disappeared...
George, a native of Belarus, traversed nine time zones to reach Harbin, Manchuria, Polia’s birthplace, where the couple met in the late 1920s. He continued on to California—becoming an American citizen??and later returned to Harbin. Laurence was born in Japanese-occupied Shanghai just two months before Pearl Harbor. George was interned on account of his citizenship, leaving Polia to care for their...
...website and the FAS directory do not yet reflect the changeover, Gates, who is back this semester from sick leave, said he is happy to sit back and hand the reins to someone he also considers a best friend. “She’s been a model citizen??I think she’s occupied every possible position in the department,” Gates said. “She’s subtle and sensitive but also very tough-minded and determined and unalterably committed to continuing to build the greatest center for African...
...example, the revised restrictions would apply to a scholar at Harvard who is a Chinese citizen??but not to a Chinese-born scholar who has since immigrated...
...holds Harvard’s rare book and manuscript collection. He regularly sold single volumes at four-figure prices.He decided the time had come to move his business out of the elements and rented a shop above a German restaurant called the Wursthaus, in the building that is now Citizen??s Bank. But Marshall didn’t want his store to be just another old-book shop. He perceived a market for someone who could repair old books, but couldn’t find anyone to teach him how.Then, browsing in Houghton Library one day, he stumbled...