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Feb 2, 2022 · The building of Widener Library was funded by a gift of Eleanor Elkins Widener, made in memory of her son Harry, a 1907 graduate of Harvard College who died on the Titanic in 1912. The Harvard University Archives has significant holdings related to the planning, construction, and maintenance of Widener Library, as well as materials documenting ...
Oct 28, 2015 · Two headstones in the Old Burying Ground testify to the presence of enslaved women. The first, a small slate stone, curved at the top and adorned with a skull and wings, reads: “Here lyes the body of Cicely, Negro, late Servant to the Reverend Minister William Brattle; she died April 8. 1714. Being 15 years old.”.
Sep 4, 2019 · The first, she said, is that it depicts John Harvard. All portraits of the real man burned in a fire in 1764, so the model for the statue was Sherman Hoar, Class of 1882, a relative of Leonard Hoar, the University’s fourth president. “It is a tradition here at Harvard to name Houses after former presidents,” Earle said.
Apr 27, 2021 · Since the beginning of the outbreak, the Gazette has periodically checked in with Thomas J. Hollister, Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, for updates on how the pandemic has affected the University’s finances. The Gazette recently asked Hollister to reflect upon the realities of the financial losses of the ...
Jan 2, 2024 · Term of office: 2001-2006. Lawrence H. Summers is President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot Professor of Harvard University.He has served in a series of senior public policy positions, including Director of the National Economic Council for the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2011, and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, from 1999 to 2001.
May 7, 2017 · A brief history of the Harvard Lampoon building by architect Edmund Wheelwright. Back in the 1890s, there was a feud over the property and—surprise—shadows.
Apr 23, 2012 · Harvard Law School ’s (HLS) alumni reunion this past weekend reconnected friends from near and far in the School’s newest addition, the 250,000-square-foot Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, Clinical Wing Building on the campus’ northwest corner. During an official dedication ceremony on Friday, donors, alumni, HLS professors ...
