Word: houghtons
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...fundamentally change the institution of the Faculty but merely its leadership. Just as new presidents of the United States have to execute laws influenced by their predecessors, deans have to carry out policies created by their predecessors and approved by the Faculty, which includes a curricular system. Indeed, Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jeremy R. Knowles did not change the curriculum when he took office in 1991, and Richard H. Broadhead, who oversaw the curricular review at Yale, left soon after Yale implemented the review he oversaw...
...foggiest notion” of how many volumes wrapped in human hide exist throughout the system, says Director of University Libraries Sidney Verba ’53. But they have identified three such volumes in the Langdell Law Library, Countway Library of Medicine, and the Houghton Collection. The three books range in content from medieval law to Roman poetry to French philosophy...
Back in Harvard Yard, in the rarefied confines of Harvard’s Houghton Collection, resides “Des destinées de l’ame...,” a collection of essays meditating on the human spirit by Arsène Houssaye, a French poet and essayist...
...owner into selling him a suitcase full of 18th-century books on credit. Then he set up shop on a patch of Square pavement and sold books to passersby at lunchtime.Within a year, he had learned about rare books and how to find good ones. Soon, his customers included Houghton Library, which holds Harvard’s rare book and manuscript collection. He regularly sold single volumes at four-figure prices.He decided the time had come to move his business out of the elements and rented a shop above a German restaurant called the Wursthaus, in the building that...
...worded letter of explanation. Three people close to Mass. Hall at the time say that even now, almost a year later, they are unclear as to what changed the president’s mind, though all three speculated that he had been directed to do so by James R. Houghton ’56, senior fellow of the Corporation—the only group with the power to fire the president...