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But Knowles yesterday assured the Faculty of his commitment to the preservation of financial aid.

Author: By Andrew S. Chang and Matthew W. Granade, S | Title: Faculty Objects To Suggested Staff Reductions | 2/14/1996 | See Source »

I am writing to you with a very urgent request, one which is very near and dear to my heart as an architectural historian and as a lover of beautiful things--the preservation of the Great Hall of the Freshman Union. I am very upset by the proposed destruction of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Great Hall Is an Irreplaceable Architectural Masterpiece | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

* The Great Hall is a memorial and as such its mutilation is not only barbaric, it is sacrilege: it is analogous to exhuming the dead in Arlington National Cemetery to make way for an office complex--which, incidentally, is what the Center for Humanities would be. It is unthinkable that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Great Hall Is an Irreplaceable Architectural Masterpiece | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

* If a memorial to the Spanish-American War can be so cavalierly cast aside because of ephemeral needs and self-interests, I can assure you that the recent restoration of memorial Hall will be re-evaluated in the most uncharitable light: it will be seen as suspect, of Harvard not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Great Hall Is an Irreplaceable Architectural Masterpiece | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

As an attorney who has represented mothers, children and the state in protective proceedings, I know all too well that there are no easy solutions to the problem of child abuse. I have witnessed firsthand the drawbacks of overzealous protection of children. Separating a child from a parent can have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1996 | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

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