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...Cambridge campus, with design, materials, proportions, and continuity echoing the excellence of Harvard’s campus today. Environmental sustainability will be built into every design decision, from the roads to the heating and cooling to the pedestrian walkways. The urban grain of one of America’s oldest cities will be respected, and the plan for open space will embrace the green vision of famed 19th century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. As the Allston Initiative advances, the University orientation will lean more toward a campus with the Charles River running through its center, a natural and scenic...
Harvard’s oldest building—freshman dorm no more
...outdoors center outside of Los Angeles following her commencement—with a more long-term plan of extending her education. “Hopefully I’ll go back to school,” she said. Despite their excitement at the honor of being named to the oldest continuously existing chapter of the revered academic society, the inductees seemed to be unsure of what to expect at today’s initiation. “My brother was PBK—there’s a poet who reads a poem, and there’s some sort...
Paige even came back in September of 1965, at the age of 59, to throw three scoreless innings for the Kansas City Athletics, becoming the oldest player to ever appear in a major league game before disappearing from the professional baseball scene once more...
...Since the 1982 incident, Walcott has returned to Harvard’s campus twice. In 2003, he gave a reading of his works at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, the nation’s oldest research center dedicated to the study of African-American history and culture. In 2005, Walcott came to the Institute of Politics for an event called “Season of Laureates: Readings in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Wole Soyinka,” cosponsored by the Du Bois Institute...