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...Green-hos,” “Pennypacker? I Hardly Know Her,” and “Cower at the Tower of Sexual Power as They Plow Her in Mower in Under an Hour, Narrated by Dwight D. Eisenhower.” Surprisingly, Hurlbut, Widener, and Pusey remained untouched...
...preservation of Harvard’s history is not something that is always undertaken with great relish,” Weishan said, noting that when the steeple of Memorial Hall burned down in 1956, then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 is said to have remarked, “Too bad the whole damn building didn’t burn down...
...Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, in North America. Rumor has it that Corbusier came to see the building when it was completed in 1963, only to accuse the contractor of building it upside down. Others insist that Corbusier never even saw the Carpenter Center in person.WIDENER, LAMONT AND PUSEY LIBRARIESThe lore surrounding Widener is familiar to many: namely, the bibliophile Titanic victim whose mother donated a boatload—pun intended—of money to the school, premised on the condition that Harvard instituted a swim test as a requirement for graduation.This rumor is partly true. Harry Elkins...
...Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, in North America. Rumor has it that Corbusier came to see the building when it was completed in 1963, only to accuse the contractor of building it upside down. Others insist that Corbusier never even saw the Carpenter Center in person.Widener, Lamont and Pusey LibrariesThe lore surrounding Widener is familiar to many: namely, the bibliophile Titanic victim whose mother donated a boatload—pun intended—of money to the school, premised on the condition that Harvard instituted a swim test as a requirement for graduation. This rumor is partly true. Harry...
...natural question; under the circumstances, anybody would have asked it. Harvard's President Nathan Pusey, chatting with Painter Andrew Wyeth at dinner the night before giving him an honorary doctor of fine arts degree in 1955, inquired: "And where did you go to college?" Wyeth knew that his answer might well be dumfounding to a professional protagonist of formal learning, but he went ahead and said it: "I didn't go to college. I never even went to school." Recalling Pusey's expression now, Wyeth says: "He almost fainted...