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Other women have also found their way onto Harvard’s walls. Amy Lowell watches over the Lowell House dining hall and Emily Dickinson hangs in Houghton Library. And several portraits of women have ascended to a spot on the walls of the Faculty Club—a building whose doors were barred to women until 1963. This year, the University added two new portraits of women to its collection...
After 11 years as dean, Knowles was replaced by Geisinger Professor of History William C. Kirby in June 2002. Since then, Knowles, who is also Houghton professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has returned to his teaching and research...
...Mark L. Houghton, executive vice president of Houghton Chemical Corporation—a local company that manufactures and distributes products including pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals—said the railroad is a “lifeline” for the region, bringing in products from all over the nation...
Reefer Madness (Houghton Mifflin; 310 pages) is the title of Schlosser's new book, and in it he widens his scope from a single industry to take on the entirety of what he calls America's "underground economy"--that vast, shadowy realm of financial activity that goes unrecorded because it's either illegal or unsavory or both. Like the fast-food business, the underground economy has ballooned over the past 30 years, to about $1 trillion, and Schlosser aims to find out why. He's hunting big conceptual game here, nothing less than America's troubled, hypocritical soul...
ALPHABETICS. This exhibit at the Amy Lowell Room in the Houghton Library features various historical artistic representations of different alphabets throughout the world. Works include a Medieval illustrated Bible, an early 18th century Russian alphabetic book and an early Latin translation of the Qu’ran. Through April 30. Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library. For details, call Hope Mayo...