Word: houghtons
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...silver keys, two seals of the University, the earliest College record book, and the Harvard Charter of 1650: these were the symbols of power transferred from former presidents Summers, Bok, and Rudenstine and Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 to President Drew G. Faust last Friday as she was officially installed. It was a formal, yet ebullient and optimistic day: one for reflecting on the forces that unite this great University and that will propel it to new heights in the future. In this context, the fiery speech that Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen...
...that even ought to—conflict with a public’s immediate concerns or demands. Universities make commitments to the timeless, and these investments have yields we cannot predict and often cannot measure. Universities are stewards of living tradition – in Widener and Houghton and our 88 other libraries, in the Fogg and the Peabody, in our departments of classics, of history and of literature. We are uncomfortable with efforts to justify these endeavors by defining them as instrumental, as measurably useful to particular contemporary needs. Instead we pursue them in part...
...said they appreciated the benefits being proposed by Harvard, some said that they felt the community has not done an adequate job of expressing its desires to the University. “They’re Harvard’s proposals, not our proposals,” said Bruce Houghton, a member of task force. “They might meet your goals, but what are our goals?” But Spiegelman said that the University’s benefits proposal was heavily influenced by requests made by the task force earlier this year. Task force member Cathleen Campbell...
...master plan the atrium is designated as public space, but I probably won’t want to be chilling out in the atrium all the time,” said task force member Bruce Houghton. “How do you develop a campus that is going to be separated, but not completely separated...
Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 on Feb. 5, grinning, in response to whether his presidential search committee had met with Faust—who would be named president-elect less than a week later...