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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many learned scholars have answered similar calls to service, leaving academic institutions around the country and the world to accept tenured posts at the nation's oldest university...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: It's a Wonderful Life | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus George H. Williams, who holds the oldest endowed chair in the U.S., has occupied Widener Library K for 14 years. Williams says he shared a carrel in 1947 when he came to Harvard, was moved to a single carrel in 1948, and landed Widener Library...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: It's a Wonderful Life | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Whether it is houses, labs or offices, the nation's oldest and richest university has a multitude of benefits it can shower on those whom it deems worthy of a Harvard chair. For tenured professors who accept Harvard's call, Cambridge can indeed be the setting for a wonderful life...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: It's a Wonderful Life | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...Ours has been a working democracy for 100 years. It is the oldest in Latin America and one of the oldest in the world," he said this fall. "Our ambition is development. Our desire is peace on our borders...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Making `A Risk for Peace' Pay Off | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...oldest daughter of Jamaican immigrants, Anderson was born in London and moved to the United States when she was three years old. Her father is a Pentecostal minister, and when she was little Anderson would sing during Sunday services, alone or in the choir...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: The Many Voices And Vocations Of Fiona | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

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