Word: knafel
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Sidney R. Knafel '52, whose donations will fund the construction of the Knafel Center near Coolidge Hall in the near future, says that his gifts were also tailored to Harvard's needs...
...Neil [Rudenstine] had come to me and said we need this amount of funds [$20 million] for the library, for scholarships, or for Latin and Greek videotape projects, I would have had equal motivation [to donate]," Knafel says...
Local churches have been in the spotlight a good deal lately--from the protests of the size of the Knafel Center project by the parishioners at the Swedenborg Chapel to some students' irritation with the frequent peals of the new bells of St. Paul's Church. It's a question in the first case of not enough light and in the second of too much noise. As far as the bells go, I can't say that my heart goes out too much to those bothered by the chimes. We students have become experts at tuning out what...
Despite the clear ability of churches to overcome physical restrictions and have more than just spiritual influence in the community, it is wrong to over-look the significance of space and relative height in the debate over the construction and shape of the proposed Knafel Center. Across the street from the home where Henry and William James once read the works of Swedenborg, on the side of Emerson Hall is inscribed a quotation from the eighth psalm, "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" President Lowell commissioned the inscription, overruling the original request of the Philosophy Department that...
...writer is chair of the Government Department and chair of the Knafel Center planning committee...