Word: houghtons
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Harvard is not known for its small-scale projects. So when the College launched the Women's Initiative project last April--funded by the $1.25 million Houghton endowment--University Hall administrators were determined to make women's status on campus a theme for the year...
...alumni behind the Houghton endowment, Maisie K. Houghton '62 and James R. Houghton '58, made their gift to Harvard last April so that the College could "catch up" with the progress Radcliffe had made over the years for women...
Although Harvard is beginning to make an effort to provide support networks and discussion for undergraduates through the Women's Initiative Project, funded by a $1.25 million gift by Jamie Houghton '58 and Maisie Houghton '62, undergraduate women have been short-changed for years by the tenuous division of duties between Harvard and Radcliffe. With Radcliffe as an excuse, Harvard has too often ignored its responsibilities to female undergraduates. It must now address specific shortcomings in its institutional attitude...
Inventing a terrorist conspiracy and then setting it in contemporary Jerusalem may seem a coals-to-Newcastle sort of enterprise. Why bother with make-believe when the reality is so vivid and convoluted? Robert Stone provides an engrossing answer in his sixth novel, Damascus Gate (Houghton Mifflin; 500 pages; $26). All of Stone's previous fiction has featured heroes whose problems are implicitly religious. Their pathologies--the heavy ingestion of drugs and booze, the habit of seeking or stumbling into serious, life-threatening trouble--stem from their uneasy sense that God still exists, but not for them. Damascus Gate makes...
...Harvard cliché that undergrads don't get the most out of their surroundings. The Radcliffe Yard doesn't get as much traffic as it ought to. Houghton library's rare books aren't thumbed through as regularly as they might be. And then there's Billings & Stover Apothecaries which, in a perfect world, would have been too much competition for Starbucks to handle...