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...President, Nelson drew the attention of the campus to important events as he saw them from what his Adams housemate and Oxford classmate Robert C. Darnton ’60 called his “observation post” as President of The Crimson...
...contemporary residence. Breaking with the architectural tradition of the initial seven Houses, Quincy’s concrete, high-rise exterior and novelty imbued its initial inhabitants with the freedom to build an interior House character from the ground up. As one of Quincy’s original 150 sophomores, Robert J. Gordon ’62 recalls the sense of pomp and privilege surrounding the newly-constructed eighth House. “In Quincy, we were proud of our modern, posh surroundings and thought that we were destined to become the conceited house in 1959,” said Gordon...
...than he did from most of his courses.“I probably got more out of sports in high school than I did out of classes,” Ostriker said. At Harvard, Ostriker studied physics and chemistry, and his high school classmate and Kirkland House roommate Robert H. Socolow ’59 said Ostriker “wasn’t a guy who had a telescope and spent hours looking at the stars.”Ostriker said that his most memorable class was not a science course, but a class on poetry with modernist poet...
...This emphasis quelled the fears of those faculty members who were concerned that the school would become too pre-professional. “There was a lingering suspicion about teaching people the importance of practicing these arts as ways to gain knowledge of the world,” said Robert G. Gardner ’48, former Coordinator of Light and Communication and co-director of the Carpenter Center. Drama was subject to the same scrutiny. “Traditional faculty feared that this was the first step on the road to perdition,” said Joel F. Henning...
...encountered before. “Once you had a major space that cost a lot of money, you had to have decision making on a faculty level,” Kopit said. Obtaining space in the Loeb depended on one’s relationship with faculty members, notably Robert Chapman, the director...