Word: kirklander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five scholars will discuss Calvino's work and ideas at 61 Kirkland St. at 8 p.m., organizer and Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature Dante Della Terza said yesterday. The symposium is open to the public...
Former master of Eliot House and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus John H. Finley '25, wrote to Kirkland House Master Donald H. Pfister this week suggesting that the historic wood be used to make a bench for Kirkland House...
...great President Kirkland splendidly enclosed the north end of the Old Yard by completing University Hall," Finley said yesterday, "The area behind that was all full of woodpiles, outhouses, and someone even said pigsties, although I'm not sure about that. Kirkland planted a row of pine trees there, and [this tree] was the last one of these...
...quadrangle also served as the College pigpen and garbage dump prior to the Kirkland administration. Historical accounts say University Minor was rat-infested and dangerous...
Finley said that Kirkland, who served as president from 1810-28, commissioned architect Charles Bulfinch to build University Hall in the Federalist, neoclassical style. According to "Three Centuries of Harvard," a college history book by Samuel Eliot Morison, Kirkland called the Yard an "unkempt sheep commons," and completed other improvement projects including the construction of Holworthy Hall...