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https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/office_ours_01_605.jpg605403Professors’ quarters, their offices, are sanctuary spaces, places of intellectual inspiration, rooms for academic exchange. Lined with books, decorated with objects and awards, speckled with family photos and mementos from foreign travel, the offices are always home to a computer — the connection to everything not housed within the four walls.