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...Although the target number for the freshman class has been set, Gross said that he and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles will decide in the coming weeks on a target number of transfer admits...
...year. In the debate leading up to the vote, the White House had said it was inappropriate for Congress to weigh in on battlefield decisions. Legal luminaries Professor of Law David J. Barron ’89, a former Crimson president, and soon-to-be Harvard Law professor Noah R. Feldman ’92 took generally opposing views at “How Can Congress Stop the War—And Should it be Able to?”—with Barron siding with Congress and Feldman leaning towards the Commander-in-Chief. The discussion centered...
...February and used a centuries-old process known as lost-wax casting in order to make rubber moldings of the bells, which they brought back to Russia and used to make the casts for the replacements. The original bells came to Lowell in 1930, when American industrialist Charles R. Crane donated them to the University. He had purchased them in Russia, where Stalin was closing all of the churches and melting their bells for raw materials. The Danilov Monastery, the bells’ original home, was spared destruction and served as an orphanage for children of dissidents. The monastery reopened...
Over seventy years ago, in the face of Stalin’s anti-religious purge, the once-famed and numerous bells of Moscow were melted down. One of the few sets to survive the era, the seventeen bells of the St. Danilov monastery, was bought by American entrepreneur Charles R. Crane, who decided later to donate them to Harvard. In 1930, they became part of one of Harvard’s most distinctive architectural features: the Lowell House bell tower. Now, almost 20 years after the reopening of the monastery, multilateral talks between the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian government...
...legislation marked “the culmination” of the UC’s focus on lowering book prices and signaled a turn towards the “nitty-gritty” aspects of acting on that focus, according to Student Affairs Committee (SAC) chair Michael R. Ragalie ’09. The relevant proposal spanned seven of the UC’s 10-page meeting agenda, boasted two appendices, and included two schematics detailing the present and future configurations for the sharing of textbook and coursepack information. Currently, the Coop, Harvard College Libraries, and crimsonreading.org...