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...Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, The Center for Hellenic Studies and Villa I Tatti--the University's three academic buildings outside Cambridge--were donated to the University by wealthy benefactors and operate largely off of multi-million dollar endowments...
Across the Atlantic Ocean sits another Harvard structure almost equally as resplendent as Villa Tatti. Adjacent to the Danish Embassy in Georgetown, nestled among 16 acres of formal gardens, Japanese cherry trees and pebble covered paths, is a 19th-century brick mansion, which houses the Dumbarton Oaks Research Center and Library...
...house has served as the site of several international conferences, including a meeting that established the principles later incorporated into the charter of the United Nations. It was also the inspiration for composer Igor Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto...
About 30 international scholars study and reside at Dumbarton Oaks each year, where they concentrate in one of three fields: Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian culture or Landscape Architecture. Students completing doctoral or post-doctoral research receive about $9000 for their work...
Spoken like a regular Thornton Wilder. But then part of Byrne's deft comic talent has always been that he is a quick study. Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, Byrne moved with his mother Emma and electrical engineer father Tom first to Hamilton, Ont. (where Sister Celia was born), and then to Baltimore. Young David arrived there at age seven with an already burgeoning interest in music. (His folks say he played his phonograph almost perpetually from age three and took up the harmonica at five...