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Tag: A. Lawrence Lowell
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Nation & World
100 years of Widener
The massive library, which rose after the Titanic sank, remains a linchpin of learning and conservation at Harvard.
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Nation & World
The old, made new
The Harvard Semitic Museum, hosting a retrospective exhibit on its long history and founder David Gordon Lyon, is refurbished, reordered, and increasingly ready for the future.
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Nation & World
In 1914, poised for war
The Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1914 were the University’s final ones before world war. Their brilliant students became players on a stage of vanishing national innocence.
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Nation & World
At 101, another look around
The only one of the Class of 1933 to return at Commencement has led a life of adventure and accomplishment.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s lucky ’13s
For Harvard, the years 1713, 1813, and 1913 represented moments of transition, at times of material expansion and ideological transformation.
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Nation & World
Architecture of experience
Harvard’s distinctive House system, a baker’s dozen of smaller communities, nurtures undergrads to find their passions, and themselves.
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Nation & World
Widener Library rises from Titanic tragedy
The ship disaster a century ago led to the drowning of three men affiliated with Harvard. It also prompted a memorial gift that quickly led to construction of the University’s flagship book repository.
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Nation & World
A century of everyday learning
Since 1910, Harvard Extension School has opened the gates of learning to half a million students.
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Nation & World
Q&A with Dean Michael Shinagel
An interview with Harvard Extension School Dean Michael Shinagel in honor of the School’s 100th anniversary.
