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...Eliot, while a student rower, distributed crimson scarves to his fellow rowers so that spectators could distinguish Harvard crew from the competition in the Regatta of 1858. After he served as Harvard’s 21st president from 1869-1909, the Harvard Corporation voted to make the color of Eliot??s scarves the official color of the university—crimson. These two snippets of Harvard mythology may in fact be true, but when Harvard narrates the history of its colors, it neglects an important fact that Fordham relishes in telling. Magenta was the original color of both...
...also credited Eliot??s kitchen manager for some of the work...
...amazing is that his work [from the 1950s] is still dynamic, resonant, and conscious today,” said Daniel Tobin, a member of the Poetry Club and chair of the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College. The pieces Ferlinghetti selected addressed themes ranging from T.S. Eliot??s romanticism to his own upbringing in Brooklyn to what he called “the increasingly cataclysmic world of the 21st century.” As founder of the San Francisco bookstore and printing house City Lights, Ferlinghetti was one of the earliest publishers of beat poetry...
...looking at governance issues, and that document ought to be examined or re-examined in light of the 21st century,” said the research director of Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, Barbara Kellerman.Harvard is a much larger institution today than it was in President Eliot??s time. With about 9,000 faculty members at the Medical School alone—and an additional 2,500 at Harvard’s other schools—the University Council would have some trouble finding an ample-sized meeting space on campus.As a result, several professors...
...theme into service, she said. According to Farooqi, Frommer had suggested that some of the servers wear roller skates to recreate a ’50s atmosphere. The renovations in Eliot follow recently complete renovations to the Dunster Grille. The actual changes in Dunster were similar to those in Eliot??and had many of the same goals. Both Houses were trying to woo more Grille customers, according to the managers of the two snack bars. “We painted the grill and brightened the colors and included some murals as opposed to the drab green that...