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...Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering building. Endowing the Northwest Science Building costs $5 million, and the south wing of the Center for Government and International Studies runs a benefactor $750,000.The endowments on these soon-to-be Harvard landmarks have been shopped around for months, but in the wake of the resignations of University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby this spring, some people involved in fundraising at Harvard are worried that the buildings may remain unnamed a little longer.Interviews with almost two dozen major donors and prominent alumni over the past...
...member of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute. Several years ago, Greenhouse took part in the “Snore and Roar” program at the National Zoo, an event at which attendees camp out on a summer night and wake up with the animals.“I did it with my neighbor because Gene didn’t want to come with me,” Greenhouse says with a laugh.Greenhouse has a special interest in horses, and she has written several articles for the Times on equestrian topics...
...Overseers, following up on reports made in the wake of Harvard’s crisis of governance in the late 1960s, established the so-called Gilbert Committee, which considered three subjects: whether changes should be made to the Overseers’ visitation process, whether the Board’s selection process was appropriate, and whether the Overseers should continue to exist...
Some Things Never Change March 17, 1981 Every few years, students here wake up to the fact of their own powerlessness. In 1978, for example, after a year of intense activism on campus, the Student Assembly was formed. Though students realized it had no formal power, they reasoned a representative body for all undergraduates might wield some influence. But the victories of the assembly have been few and far between—it is to be credited with helping win free toilet paper for the River Houses, and last year it staged a rock concert and a poorly attended spring...
...correction, claiming he was “not aware of having used that phrase [but] I did once use the phrase ‘camp counselor’ to refer to some of the functions of House tutors,” the point remained.This statement came in the wake of the firing of the former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, who wrote in a letter to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby that past February that “it has never been thought that the main goal of Harvard College should...