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...American Revolution marked the beginning of a turbulent time on campus. Students relocated to Concord as Yard buildings were used to house soldiers, smallpox broke out in Cambridge, and many could not afford to pay tuition. Furthermore, students openly opposed Langdon??s efforts to instill more theology into their lives. Tired of being treated like children, the students declared him unfit for presidency in August of 1780. Langdon, unable to hold imperial rule over the school, took the hint and stepped down. Langdon??s fall from grace marked a change in the power dynamics between Harvard...
Real organizations and objects—the machiavellian Opus Dei, the eerie art of Da Vinci, and the esteemed college of hero Robert Langdon??blend so easily into Brown’s fantasy world that I began to wonder whether that long-haired fellow sitting to Jesus’ right in the “Last Supper” might just actually be a woman. I pulled up the painting using Google image search to take a closer look...
...College student body’s full-scale desertion of the campus in 1675, partly in response to Hoar’s allowance of cruel beatings of disobedient students, left Hoar no choice but to resign. More than 100 yearss later, the students petitioned the Corporation for Langdon??s removal, writing, “as a President, we despise you.” Langdon promptly submitted his resignation...
...Langdon??s departure in 1780 marked the last time a Harvard president was forced out of office...
...ivory tower perches to solve a murder mystery. The most famous protagonist in the genre is no doubt Harvard symbiologist Robert Langdon, hero of Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code. Langdon achieved international renown a quarter century after philosophy professor Homer Kelly graced the pages of Jane Langdon??s 1978 Murder in Memorial Hall. Chase’s economics department colleague Henry Spearman plays amateur investigator extraordinare in the 1986 novel Fatal Equlibrium. But smart and sassy Nikki Chase shatters gender and color barriers to become the first fictional African-American female Harvard professor-cum-sleuth...