Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several of Harvard's historical landmarks and cannot be changed without approval from the Cambridge Historic Commission. All Yard buildings except for the relatively new Canaday Hall, for example, are protected.
Similarly, the University will seek a variance from the MAAB for its renovation of University Hall this summer. Making the building's elevator reach the top floor would require cutting through the historic Faculty meeting room and breaking the original roof line--a move the Cambridge Historical Commission strongly opposes...
For the most recent "Widener Stacks Renovation" (WSR), the Harvard administration asked the family for permission to step outside the bounds of Mrs. Widener's original plans, and the Wideners again told the University to "do what you need to do to preserve the collection," according to the communications officer...
"[Communism's collapse] was a result of the revolution of conscience that [the Pope] excited in Europe," Weigel said, referring in part to John Paul II's historic visit to Poland.
Without anything close to the two-thirds majority required to pass the treaty, Clinton wrote Lott on Monday that "proceeding to a vote under these circumstances would severely harm the national security of the United States, damage our relationship with our allies, and undermine our historic leadership over 40 years...