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Nine-term U.S. Representative Amo Houghton ’50, R-N.Y., will announce in early April whether or not he will run again for the seat in New York’s 29th Congressional District...
Barend has worked with Houghton—who hails from the Harvard family for which Houghton Library is named—on economic development in the 29th district and says she has a lot of respect...
...Houghton Library of Rare Books presents the third concert in their chamber music series. For their March performance, British baritone Christopher Maltman sings a variety of pieces, including Purcell, Gurney, Butterworth, Lowe, and Wolf. The concerts, all held in the library, are also intended to give the concertgoers a chance at intermission to get a glimpse of some of the amazing books Harvard has in its libraries, from a first edition of Mao’s Little Red Book to Goethe’s thesis. Tickets $20 regular, $10 students. 8 p.m. Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library...
...Stepford Hilles—there will be precious few places like it left on campus. I realize, of course, that retaining a shrine to impracticality is—well—impractical. But I had long thought of Hilles as a refuge among Harvard libraries. The guards at Houghton all but frisk you when you emerge from viewing its rare books, Widener is haunted by scowling academes, Lamont is crowded with a Boschian assortment of your drowsing or deadline-crazed classmates—but Hilles remains a place apart, the ex-hipster aunt whom you seek out at Thanksgiving because...
Morris said that Hyde Eccles made her first donation to the University in 1968 when she and Houghton established the Donald Hyde Memorial Room on the second floor of the rare books library...