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...others had added to the new collection, and Radcliffe president Wilbur K. Jordan appointed Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., father of the present historian and then a well known Harvard history professor, to direct the library's advisory board...
Unlike many institutions, which are named in honor of their founders or endowers, the library was named in 1965 for the history professor. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. later said his mother was responsible for convincing the elder Schlesinger of the importance of women's history. Fittingly, the library also bears her name...
...that's six Yales, five Harvards (so I'm a homer), four Browns (ugh), four Cornells, two Princetons, and one each for Penn and Columbia. So much for guessing...
...environment in which teaching skills might receive unwonted (and, yes, in some quarters, unwanted) recognition at this University had actually gotten off the ground. Student interest and pressure can help keep it in flight, and may, indeed, be essential to keeping it in flight. But partial and, I'm afraid, somewhat automatic newspaper responses to what's being done to nurture this (for contemporary Harvard) rara avis, are not too helpful. Peter Dale Allston Burr Senior Tutor
...highly ideological group. Most people come from the right of the political spectrum, and I think I'm the only anarchist--the others believe in some from of minimal state," Cosmides says...