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...inundated Square. “A wave would go over the Charles River dam,” Kirshen said. But, he added, “the flooding would not be permanent.” A team of professors at Boston University who co-authored the study, led by geographers William P. Anderson and Tiruvarur R. Lakshmanan, investigated how automotive transport will be affected by these climatic disruptions. “Whenever you have a major storm event, you have major delays in people’s travel,” Anderson said. The researchers estimate aggregate traffic delays, measured...
...William Arrowsmith once lamented that precious few rewards exist at research universities for good teaching. “Universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want to restore a Druid priesthood, you cannot do it by offering prizes for Druid-of-the-Year. If you want Druids, you must grow forests.” We all know that it takes decades to grow a forest, and no institution can afford to wait decades to create an environment in which great courses will spontaneously emerge and good teaching will thrive...
...Moore Laurenti ’79, who attended the event. “They just asked people to talk.”Other members of the search committee have also begun to fan out across the country to consult with small groups of active alumni.Overseer and Boston lawyer William F. Lee ’72 paid a visit to the executive board of HAA at its spring meeting last month in Cambridge, where he solicited their input on Summers’ vision for the University and the traits the committee should consider in a new president...
...small luncheon for Harvard alumni at the posh ArabellaSheraton Hotel Seehof in Davos, Summers’ respite from University politics came crashing to an end. At 9:35 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27, The Crimson reported on its website that FAS Dean William C. Kirby, the historian of China who had led Harvard’s flagship school for just four years, would step down from his post under pressure from Summers. Citing anonymous sources, The Crimson’s report drove Kirby to officially announce his resignation nearly a week before he had planned...
...Gomes looks to University President Charles William Eliot’s 1869 inaugural address to describe the essence of the Overseers’ place at the University...