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STAND activists at Chicago responded heatedly to Zimmer’s announcement, citing Zimmer’s own support of divestment in 2005 as Brown’s provost and the fact that the Kalven report left room for “the exceptional instance [when] the corporate activities of the university may appear so incompatible with paramount social values...
...bell tones and made moldings of the bells’ intricate iconography. A Russian foundry that a Harvard delegation visited last summer will duplicate the bells and send them back to Lowell. If all goes according to plan, the exchange will happen in summer 2008, according to Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91. The Lowell bells, the oldest of which dates back to the 17th century, were purchased by an American industrialist just as Josef Stalin was seizing church artifacts across the Soviet Union and melting them down to raw material. The industrialist...
...that the Fine Arts Library would be moving in.Kirby, the Geisinger professor of history, wrote in an e-mail yesterday that the entire University shared common goals “in aspiring to a long-overdue renovation of the Fogg.”“The Provost and I worked hard with the Department, the Fogg, and the Library to try to find the best of a set of alternative solutions,” Kirby said, referring to the Department of the History of Art and Architecture.It will cost $3 to $4 million to renovate Littauer Library to accommodate...
...confident Faust has this “subtle skill.”In addition, Faust is set to be the first president since Derek C. Bok, the former Law School dean, to be picked from within Harvard. Faust was among several other internal candidates under consideration, including University Provost Steven E. Hyman and Law School Dean Elena Kagan. NEW CHALLENGESThough Faust comes from one of the University’s smallest divisions, colleagues said she will be helped by her experience there and the institute’s interdisciplinary approach.When she took over Radcliffe in 2001, the institute faced...
They were presidents of big universities and small colleges; leaders of British schools and American research institutions; sons and daughters of Harvard and people who never studied in Widener Library. And yet, these very different provosts, presidents, and prize-winners all had one thing in common: they did not want to become the next president of Harvard University. With the Board of Overseers’ approval of Harvard historian Drew Gilpin Faust as the University’s 28th president forthcoming, observers of the process offer a number of explanations as to why the most promising candidates from outside Cambridge...