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When he returns to teaching, Knowles will rejoin the ranks of the Faculty he first entered in 1974 when he arrived at Harvard from Oxford University...
...Cinema might want audience members to forget, the megamovie Lord of the Rings has a history that predates Elijah Wood's hairy toes. Amid the cultural storm of the 1960s, American hippies put down their bongs, turned down the Hendrix and transformed an obscure three-volume fantasy by an Oxford professor into a counterculture classic. Rings-mania swept U.S. campuses, prompting TIME to comment, in the quaint parlance of the age, "The hobbit habit seems to be almost as catching as LSD." New initiates wore buttons declaring "Frodo Lives" or "Go Go Gandalf," while Ringworms, the trilogy's hardcore fans...
Knowles arrived at Harvard from Oxford in 1974, and took the helm of the Faculty in July 1991, as former University President Neil L. Rudenstine was taking over the reigns of the University...
...Harvard has found a more important use for the Oxford St. site...
Eliminating the cyclotron is part of a larger overhaul Harvard is planning for science buildings around Oxford St. and Divinity Ave. The University promises the end result someday will be more research facilities, more grass and less asphalt...