Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok let himself in for the wrath of tree lovers the world over when he okayed the use of Dumbarton Oaks, the plush Harvard-owned estate outside Washington, for a wedding reception for Rep. John Brademas '49 (D-Ind.), the House majority whip. Despite the fact that large garden parties are bad for the estate's famous tree-lined garden. Bok apparently felt that Brademas--a former Overseer and close friend of "Harvard's Congressman," Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.--could be trusted not to import a pack of restless dachsunds. "We figured, what the heck, it wasn...
...reception, held at Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard-owned research facility in Washington, was organized by a Washington committee of local supporters of the library...
...then there's the Byzantine Studies Center, which may or may not be leaving its spacious residence at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. for less-palacial quarters in Cambridge...
William R. Tyler, director of Dumbarton Oaks, agreed that nothing much has happened. "The library is running out of space," he said earlier this week, "but that's nothing...
...Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's elegant estate in the nation's capital, houses a library of Byzantine studies--but it is also the site of 16 acres of a world-renowned formal garden. So when Harvard proposed last year to build an underground library addition, Pusey-style, beneath the estate's most graceful lawn, the University ran into determined opposition...