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Randy Moir, a project archaeologist at the Peabody Museum's Institute of Conservation Archaeology (ICA), was walking past Harvard Hall last Friday and stopped to explore the trenches dug by Metropolitan Boston Transportation Authority (MBTA) workers. The workers are rerouting pipes to make way for the extension of the Red Line...
Among the items found by the archaeologists are buttons, porcelain, chicken bones, pipe stems and what Roberts terms "typical college material": beer steins and wine bottle fragments. Many of the artifacts date from the 1600s. In addition to the Harvard Hall site, artifacts were found by Grays Hall and Wadsorth House. Roberts said that the latter site seems to have been the town dump, which is an archaeologist's treasure trove...
John B. Fox Jr. '59 stands 6 ft., 4 in. tall, and is probably the only administrator who can take Professor Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith (also 6-8) on, one-on-one. You won't have trouble noticing him as he ducks into his office in University Hall every morning to play dean of the College. Basically, Fox is responsible for picking up all the loose administrative ends of things that have to do with the College. He is chairman of the Administrative Board, which decides disciplinary cases, and uh, he helps Dean Rosovsky...
...familiar to him as the keys on a typewriter. For 20 years, Barrett has made U.S. politics his beat. A graduate of Columbia's School of Journalism, he joined the New York Herald Tribune in 1957. Soon he became the Tribune's city hall bureau chief, with a regular column, "City Hall Beat," and wrote The Mayor of New York, a then futuristic political novel about urban pathology. After helping to cover the White House for the Tribune during the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies, Barrett in 1965 joined TIME, where he worked in the Nation section and wrote...
...rate mortgages were devised by the E.F. Hutton brokerage firm, working closely with city hall. Alarmed by the continuing exodus of Chicagoans to the suburbs-the city has lost about 50,000 middle-class citizens a year since the mid-1950s-Mayor Michael Bilandic warmly embraced the plan as a way to subsidize home loans without increasing taxes...