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...FIRST-FLOOR room in Barnard Hall--the newest of all Harvard buildings--the roof leaks plaster onto my bed every night...
...years, hay bales surrounded the building to cushion the plummeting facade and frustrated scholars, who did manage to get at its 2 million books, decorated the library's walls with terse commentary on the elevators that didn't work, the roof that leaked, and the books that were lost in the shuffling back and forth between libraries when the tower was closed...
After engineers threw up their hands, the chancellor directed the $2.5 million the legislature appropriated to fix the bricks in 1980 used to complete two unfinished floors, repair the elevators, put a roof over the entrance to protect scholars heads and replace the chainlink fence and saw-horses, aimed at keeping students at a safe distance from the building, with shrubbery...
During the Revolutionary War, Harvard was taken over by 1,500 of Washington's troops as a barracks. When the students returned from temporary exile in Concord, they found that all the brass doorknobs were missing, and much of the lead roof had been melted down for bullets. Harvard subsequently granted Washington its first honorary doctorate in 1776, and the President later transferred his step-grandson there from Princeton on the theory that Harvard, still largely a school for clerics, was "less prone to dissipation and debauchery...
Anti-sniper teams guarded the area aroundMemorial Hall, keeping watch from the roof of theSchool of Design across the street. A police dogsniffed photographers' bags before the Princearrived, and members of Scotland Yard were also onthe scene...