Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, all the perfect cherry blossoms. They go on and on about the dogwoods, the fields of hyacinths and azaleas, the quarter-million tulips planted near the Tidal Basin. Special pilgrimages are urged on visitors: not just the National Arboretum-precious camellias! amazing bonsai!-but the wonders of Dumbarton Oaks and the little garden at the foot of Capitol Hill. Washington, in sum, is very serious, even about its plants...
...addition, remote storage would mean adding messengers and more staff to a system which now employs 200 professionals and $26 support personnel in Boston, Cambridge, Washington--for the Dumbarton Gultz library--and Florence, Italy, site of Harvard's Vilin I. Tatti Renaissance studies center...
Harvard maintains two joint faculty appointments with Dumbarton Oaks. Currently, Professor Angeliki E. Laiou of the History Department, and Professor Ihor Sevcenko of the Classics Department, hold these posts...
Acquired by Harvard in 1940, Dumbarton Oaks is a research center devoted to the study of Byzantine and Medieval Humanities, Pre-Columbian Art, and Landscape Architecture. Formerly a private estate, the building housed the first meeting of the United Nations...
...Stuart is an outstanding young scholar in his field," says Giles Constable '50, Dumbarton Oaks director. "I was not terribly surprised to hear about his award. I felt that the selection committee at the MacArthur Foundation had the same sense as we did here at Dumbarton Oaks...