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Leverett’s successor, Edward Holyoke, Class of 1705, added yet another relic to the installation ritual—the famous Harvard President’s Chair. Though the exact origins of the chair remain unknown, it has achieved legendary status due to its shaky triangular framework that makes each presidential sitting—at installation ceremonies and at Commencement—a balancing...
...loose and scribble nutty books about man-dog love affairs and ambiguously ribald real estate ads, such an oddly conservative sense of taste and purpose demands a closer examination. Sontag may be a guardian of culture’s good name, or she may be just a relic...
...rebuilt White House. The Confederate strategists had in mind capturing the White House with Abraham Lincoln inside, maybe having a mint julep on the porch. In the chaotic months after the Civil War the Army Engineers, who literally ran the Capital city, declared the White House a relic and wanted to move it to the more secure hills of Washington's Rockcreek Park. Ulysses Grant, realizing that the White House now was imbued with Lincoln's great mystique, stopped that...
...detractors may not admit it, but dumping ABM would ultimately be more beneficial than keeping it. The arrangement is a relic of past hostility and does not account for today’s terrorist climate. If the U.S. is going to make a full commitment to constructing a missile defense shield, which now appears to be the case, then we must go all the way with...
...year old relic of a soccer ball sits alongside the window of Bob Scalise’s Murr Center office. Its markings reveal that it was the game ball for the inaugural women’s soccer Ivy Championship won by Harvard. Initially a gift for athletic director Jack Reardon ’60, who supported the program in its nascent stages, it was inherited by his successor William J. Cleary ’56, and then passed down to Scalise with a twinge of irony...