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...Yale is one-upping us again. They’re moving forward with plans to build two new residential colleges—sticking to plans to demolish historic buildings including the Seeley G. Mudd Library, Hammond Hall, and Brewster Hall—while our much touted “House renewal” process won’t start until at least 2012, according to Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith. Some locals and preservationists may be fighting for the buildings to be saved, but Yale University President Richard Levin told the Yale Daily News that...
Meanwhile, though President Faust has taken it up as her mission to (try to) expand the arts at Harvard without disrespecting all those laid off staffers, Yale College has created a new position for an arts dean. According to the YDN, Dean Susan Cahan’s responsibilities will include “[developing] new programs in the arts” and making room for more artistic space. While Harvard does have its own Office for the Arts, this year it will probably be more focused on budget cuts than “new programs...
...didn’t know you had, and that was really wonderful.” Barbara Ellen Johnson was born in Boston, Mass. on October 4, 1947. One of two Presidential Scholars from Massachusetts in 1965, Johnson graduated from Oberlin College four years later and continued her education at Yale, where she received her Ph.D. in French in 1977. The “Yale School”—a group of deconstructionist literary critics and theorists including Johnson’s thesis director, Paul de Man—would serve as a signifcant influence on Johnson?...
...voted for him, and he was happy about that, but he really lit up when I mentioned that I lived in Winthrop House,” Quinn said.Kennedy was a noted right end on the football team during his college career, scoring the only Harvard touchdown in the Harvard-Yale Game his senior year. He turned down recruiting interest from the Green Bay Packers, instead opting to attend law school at the University of Virginia.It was at law school that Kennedy would meet his first wife, Joan Bennett, whom he married in 1958. The couple had three children?...