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Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., the site of the World War II conference that resulted in the formation of the United Nations, is still widely known for two things: decorative gardens and its research centers on ancient...
Harvard's plan calls for the construction of a 25,000-square-foot underground library adjoining the main Dumbarton building. The two-story building will be visible only in scattered ground-level skylights...
...Dumbarton Oaks consists of a mansion and the surrounding grounds that were donated to Harvard in 1940, along with a large art collection. Since then, Harvard has added to the collection and used the site as a center for a small group of research fellows to study both art and literature about art in an intimate and intensive environment...
...purpose of Dumbarton Oaks, according to Dumbarton director, Edward L. Keenan, is to allow its 18 research fellows to "study the museum objects and very specialized libraries that have been built around these objects...
...ended up quoted in a news article somewhere. For us, the ones reading the paper, these people only exist in black and white. We won't see them in class, because they take all their classes at the Med School or the Ed School or the botanical gardens at Dumbarton Oaks, or they're so busy being famous or getting quoted about how much their source-books cost that they don't bother to show up for class at all. After a while we come to know a lot about them, certainly more than they know about us. We talk...