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Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said in an interview yesterday that President Neil L. Rudenstine's recent decision to waive the traditional ad hoc committee review of chemist Andrew G. Myers does not indicate a change in Harvard's tenure process.
"Katherine Loker's stunning new gift gives [Widener] Library a wonderful boost," said Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles. "This takes a great stride towards funding the Widener renovation project, which has a very high priority for us."
In his 1998 annual letter to the Faculty, Knowles estimated that an average lowering of the library temperature by ten centigrade degrees would double the life of the collections. In a recent survey, nearly three out of four of Harvard's folios dating form 1800 to 1950 were declared "embrittled...
"In broad terms, we know what needs to be done: the stacks must be equipped with sprinklers and made safe against fire, and all areas of the library must be climate-controlled to slow the deterioration of our printed collections," Knowles wrote in the letter.
We at Dartboard are fascinated and have been flipping through facebooks searching for our blockmates' middle initials ever since we heard the news. And we wonder: How does this bode for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, or for Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles? Then again, everything...