Word: woodlands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enrollment in Biology 7a, "Introductory Biology," has declined in the past three years, although the course remains one of the most attended at Harvard. The instructors, J. Woodland Hastings, professor of Biology, and Lawrence Bogorad, Cabot Professor of Biology, both speculated that the number of people interested in medical school is going down...
...gave the fund a supermarket, and the fund sold it for $600,000. The big gifts and an industrywide payroll deduction plan that now brings in about $2 million a year have accumulated to present assets of $80 million, including the 47 acres in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, where the Country House and Hospital stands. The budget is $14 million a year and rising. The director of fund raising is William Campbell, whose name may not ring a bell, but whose face would...
...strong personal feelings about the switch--in fact, they say, the switch has made their job easier because they do not have to incorporate freshmen, who usually left for another House via the lottery in the spring. "But that was our constituency--and we were representing them," recalls Woodland Hastings...
Compounding the agony many freshmen have felt about getting Quad assignments has been subsequent room assignment in a converted lounge or ironing closet. Woodland Hastings sees a need for "about 100 additional rooms" at the Quad to eliminate the aggravation which makes the Quad even less acceptable to a certain number of sophomores each year. The 1977 Comprehensive Plan built a $400,000 dining hall for South House to make it a House with facilities comparable to all others, and committee members are saying that similar work is now needed elsewhere. Says Heimert: "The most important need is a single...
...work wonders. And the committee may have some leverage in asking for construction work because of the College's current $50 million renovation of the aging Houses which will barely affect the Quad. "There's an opportunity to do something that would make a big difference in life here," Woodland Hastings says directly...