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...seemed to be perfect.” Her study group will focus both on liberalism in the Muslim world and on American and British policy choices after Iraq, the IOP announced. Flug, who began his career in politics here at Harvard as news director of the campus radio station WHRB in the late 1950s, will lead a study group on the U.S. Senate. It’s a topic he knows well—in the 1960s and 1970s, he was a top adviser to Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 and returned...
...across Harvard Yard.‘PAST PRESENT FUTURE’As a freshman, McClintick threw himself into WHRB—but mid-way through sophomore year, he decided to focus on academics.“I nearly did myself in by spending too many days and nights at WHRB and not enough reading Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau,” he recalls.He joined the U.S. Army intelligence branch after graduating from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. But four years later, he found himself back in journalism’s trenches—at The Wall Street...
Today, Bostonians can turn their radio dials to 95.3 WHRB-FM to hear everything from classical programming to jazz and blues to under-the-radar rock acts. From its radio array atop One Financial Center, the tallest building in downtown Boston, Harvard’s radio station sends its sound out across the greater Boston area. But in 1956, Harvard Radio Broadcasting, Inc. (WHRB) was only available to those plugged in to Harvard’s electric system. Unlike FM/AM radios, which interpret signals received from the air, WHRB’s signals were carried through University electrical wiring. Thus...
...council president. Albert B. Levin ’56 unanimously elected.9/29: Prescott Street apartments will house 200 college students. Overseers report calls College expansion “unavoidable,” need for larger faculty, three more houses.10/2: Holly Carleton is chosen as Miss Radcliffe ’59. WHRB, the undergraduate radio station, wins approval of football broadcasts a day later.10/5: School of education faces budget cuts of $63,000 when $300,000 bequest expires in June.10/9: Local alumni begin fundraising $80,000 to restore Memorial Hall tower. The Divinity School must get $675,000 before...
What this means is that WHRB may continue to flourish in the basement of Pennypacker—but its success necessarily factors out a wide student listenership...