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Thanks to the Office of the President and Undergraduate Council President Sujean S. Lee ’03, this year’s Springfest—instead of just being like my primary school spring fair—will likely also bear some uncanny resemblance to an office picnic (without the beer). The April 27 event is supposed to be the council’s banner event. But this year, new University President Lawrence H. Summers wants to co-sponsor the event and open it to the entire Harvard community—making it an event for Harvard students...
DIED. EILEEN HECKART, 82, animated, gravelly-voiced actress known for her down-to-earth performances on stage, screen and television; of cancer; in Norwalk, Conn. Widely known as Mary's savvy Aunt Flo on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Heckart got her break in Picnic on Broadway in 1953 and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as the overbearing mother in the 1972 film Butterflies Are Free. In 2000 she returned to the stage with an acclaimed performance as a woman dying of Alzheimer's in The Waverly Gallery...
...social atmosphere in Classics. Professors support each other in intellectual pursuits by collaborating in workshops, attending outside lectures and sitting in on their colleagues’ seminars. Thomas also emphasizes the importance of less formal events like faculty dinners, monthly lunches, and the departmental favorite—the spring picnic. It stands to reason that professors who get along with each other will be ready and willing to collaborate when helping students as well. “Classics is in a way a self-contained, interdisciplinary study,” Thomas explains, citing this as a reason for much...
Though they may not gather for a spring picnic, Government professors seem to agree that this ideological disagreement is a healthy, not destructive, quality of the department...
...little before 10 a.m. on Saturday, just as the Crimson football team sat down for a final motivational speech and the University of Pennsylvania band tuned up, Darlene Sadoski unfolded a card table from her trunk and unpacked her picnic basket...