Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Henri Focillon professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Harvard University L.H.D...
...touring garden clubs, Dumbarton Oaks is a "must." To more politicallyminded Washingtonians it is the site of the 1945 post-war financial conference, which laid the groundwork for subsequent United States international monetary policies. To students of Byzantine lore, however, Harvard's center is the nucleus of American activity in their field...
...actual work at Dumbarton Oaks is completely informal. The Fellows are all engaged in projects, generaly requiring a year to complete, while the resident and visiting professors act as advisors and work on their own research. The facilities for research are superlative. not only because they are extensive, but also because nearly all the material is under one roof. The compactness of Dumbarton Oaks is one of its major advantages. The library, itself, is a tribute to the devotion and energies of the former Director, Professor Albert M. Friend, and Professor Milton V. Anastos. These gentlemen, supplied with funds from...
Aside from harboring and encouraging students, Dumbarton Oaks plays a substantial part in adding to the already available knowledge on the Byzantine period. It conducts a syposium every April and then publishes the report of the discussions of the most eminent scholars in the field, from America and abroad...
Oakly has come a long way since John Calhoun wrote of his life there: "My wine has started, finally." The Lovers' Lane that bordered the estate in Calhoun's time is still there, and the gardens are as lovely as ever, but Dumbarton Oaks, itself, has changed greatly. Once the residence of a Yale man, it is now the scene of Harvard's expansion into a field beset by growing pains but very much alive...