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Mrs. Widener’s gift, which historians have estimated at over $4 million, provided the funds to build the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library.
Under the conditions of a 1912 agreement between the University and Eleanor Elkins Widener, the library’s benefactor, no “additions or alterations” could be made to the facade of the building.
Students of Kikuyu or Swahili will have the chance to visit universities in Kenya and can also participate in an oral history project, led by Assistant Professor of History Caroline M. Elkins, which centers on the life stories of survivors of the Mau Mau Rebellion.
“With the addition of the African Languages Program, Harvard is now one of the places to come if not the place to come to study Africa,” said Elkins. “Now that we have the languages, it puts us in the forefront.?...
“I think [Radcliffe’s] now one of the more pre-eminent places to spend a year,” Elkins said. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to have been selected.”