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...family members to do so; still others designate literary executors to handle their papers and dole them out to universities or libraries. (One hopes that the recently deceased and uncommonly prolific John Updike may have taken the last route.) But such wishes aren't always carried out to the letter. Emily Dickinson, who saw fewer than a dozen poems published during her lifetime, instructed her sisters to burn all of her correspondence and verse - orders that were only half followed. Franz Kafka's directive to his friend Max Brod to destroy all of his work was completely ignored. Such literary...
Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith expressed his support for the Dowling Committee’s recommendations to simplify the structure of student-faculty committees in a letter sent to Neuroscience Professor John E. Dowling ’57, who served as the chair of the Committee to Review the Undergraduate Council. Smith stated that he and Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds agreed with the basic recommendations of the committee but still had reservations about some of the conclusions drawn by the report. “Dean Hammonds and I agree whole-heartedly with the recommendation...
Following Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s recent letter criticizing Harvard’s decision to slow down construction of the Allston Science Complex, more local politicians are stepping forward to voice similar disapproval...
...letter addressed to University President Drew G. Faust last week, Senator Anthony D. Galluccio expressed his opposition to the construction slowdown, citing the move’s negative impact on the vitality of the neighborhood...
...that “we have chosen not to do layoffs.” Levy said then that Beth Israel was not as troubled as other Harvard institutions, such as the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which had already announced plans for layoffs at the time. Levy wrote in a letter to staff last week that Beth Israel’s two percent, $18 million operating margin for fiscal year 2009 “has disappeared,” partly due to an unexpectedly $7 million cut in state-sponsored Medicaid, which accounted for nearly a third of Beth Israel?...