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...During these past few weeks, our overachieving Harvard mentality has prevented us from leaving stones unturned, chores unfinished and goals unfulfilled. Students are "bumping into" potential senators in "random" places, eager to cement "lasting friendships." Shopping carts filled with food from the Kahiki Cafe zoom out of Loker as the last cents of Crimson Cash disappear. The Widener stacks reek of bodily fluids. Several sorry individuals are still trying out for Crimson Key. And John Harvard is more pissed than usual...
While students are still complaining that the MAC needs a more extensive overhaul, Katherine B. Loker targeted her philanthropy toward another location of deterioration: the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library...
...sample survey earlier this year, three out of four of Harvard's folios dating from 1800 to 1950 were dubbed "embrittled" as a result of extremes of temperature and humidity. Loker's donation will fund air conditioning, heating and ventilation systems to protect the collections housed in the 80-year-old library...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles thanked Loker for her sustained generosity to the University at a May fundraising dinner reception at the Fogg Museum...
After having "warmed up the basement of Memorial Hall" with a $10 million gift to create a student commons in 1995, Loker's most recent $17 million donation will help "cool down our collection of books" with climate control mechanisms, Knowles said...