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...Twain scholars made some intriguing discoveries about the writer's personal affairs. Victor Fischer and Michael Frank of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley, said some soon-to-be published letters show that in 1869, Twain, at 33, had launched a campaign to convince Olivia Langdon, 23, that his wanderlust would cease if she married him. Wrote Twain: "It is my strong conviction that, married to you, I would never desire to roam again while I lived." Despite her reservations, Langdon finally relented. Twain triumphantly wrote to his family, "She said she never could or would...
...expected Harvard to be a little sounder, a little more skillful," Butler Coach Langdon Kumler said. "I think we outplayed them in the first half. Our problem is on set plays. In the second half, Harvard outplayed...
Harvard's collection of Tun-huang wall paintings and sculptures in the Sackler Museum should also be considered an important case in the repatriation debate. The pieces were taken from Buddhist cave temples in northern China by Harvard archeologist Langdon Warner in a 1920 expedition. The ancient caves, now preserved by the Chinese government, are marred by gaping holes in the walls where the wall paintings and sculptures used...
...hunting. The boars weigh as much as 136 kg (300 lbs.), and, says park official Joe Abrell, "tear up most everything in their paths." Man is responsible as well for oriental bittersweet, a vine imported to control erosion. It is strangling trees. Says park resource specialist Keith Langdon: "Once it gets a grasp on the land, it doesn't relinquish...
Harvard PresidentsHenry Dunster 1640-1654Charles Chauncy 1654-1672Leonard Hoar 1672-1675Urian Oakes 1675-1681John Rogers 1682-1684Increase Mather 1685-1701John Leverett 1708-1724Benjamin Wadsworth 1725-1737Edward Holyoke 1737-1769Samuel Locke 1770-1773Samuel Langdon 1774-1780Joseph Willard 1781-1804Samuel Webber 1806-1810John Thornton Kirkland 1810-1828Josiah Quincy 1829-1845Edward Everett 1846-1849Jared Sparks 1849-1853James Walker 1853-1860Cornelius Conway Felton 1860-1862Thomas Hill 1862-1868Charles William Eliot 1869-1909Abbott Lawrence Lowell 1909-1933James Bryant Conant 1933-1953Nathan Marsh...