Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thirty years ago, Harvard students studying government could attend lectures by professors with names like Kissinger and Moynihan. Today, though the department as a whole is considered the best in the country, the branch devoted to the study of American politics sits, at least according to one former member, on the brink of crisis...
...past years, says Rogers M. Smith, aprofessor of political science at Yale Universityand former Harvard Government graduate student,the American program has been strong...
...Former treasurer of the Kirkland House Committee Sam Yagan '99, admits that allocation of HoCo funds are "based on the whim of the people present at any particular meeting." Inevitably, committees favor certain investments: Kirkland's HoCo subsidizes the Boat Club; Cabot's Weight Room "Czar" Marty Thiry '00, requested $3,000 to refurbish the weight room, and Lowell's HoCo succeeded in extending dining hall hours. Apportioning is also made in the name of the zany and the philanthropic, from Leverett HoCo's $200 kazoo purchase for their Winter Carnival to Kirkland House's support of a dining hall...
...mysterious and philanthropic benefactor largely financed this gate, just outside Widener library, though it bares the name of the class. In his stead, the names of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, and his classmate, former Secretary of State Robert Bacon, are inscribed in the wall. President Eliot also had something to add: n the outside, "Enter to Grow in Wisdom," and on the inside, now partly obscured by Wigg, "Depart, better to serve your country and thy kind...
...This gate, completed in 1891, carves the space between Wigg D and E. A gift by George von Longerke Meyer, former Secretary of Navy, the gate was designed by Charles Follen McKim...