JOHN H ARVARD'S JOURNAL Lapp and Rick McCullough, vice provost Yesterday’s News for research, includes faculty members versed in real estate and economic devel- From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine opment, and administrators responsible for technology licensing and campus plan- 1924 The statue of John Harvard is Management Training Program, the “clos- ning and construction. They have been moved from the Delta, west of Memorial est thing to a Harvard Business School charged to think “expansively,” Garber Hall, to today’s position at University Hall. education available for women.” said. Given Boston’s process for negotiat- ing taller, denser development than Cam- 1939 Each undergraduate House has 1974 Thanks to $180,000 from the bridge permits, the resulting facilities, gradually acquired a nickname for its resi- National Endowment for the Humanities, in toto, could represent a big investment dents: “Gold Coasters” (Adams); “Pio- the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has set up (presumably led by private investors, on neers” or “Funsters” (Dunster); “Ele- a major program of instruction in oral lit- terms to be discussed). He emphasized phants” (Eliot); “Deacons” (Kirkland); erature, including the study of folklore, that no one envisions a biotech or IT park “Rabbits” (Leverett); “Bellboys” (Lowell); natural magic, balladry, and mythology. per se: the uses will emerge with discov- and “Puritans” (Winthrop). ery and might embrace fields of research, 1984 Roger Brockett, McKay profes- as yet unknown, with commercial po- The Harvard Crimson (reportedly sacrifc- sor of applied mathematics, is assembling tential. Much planning, permitting, and ing more than $2,000 in advertising) inau- Harvard’s frst robotics laboratory in an infrastructure investment must precede gurates “a campaign to eliminate [local] effort to improve ways to incorporate the construction, but the torrid pace of build- tutoring schools as an organized vice humanlike capacities for vision, touch, and ing in Kendall Square and on the Boston racket violating University rulings and eth- manipulation into a robot’s repertoire. waterfront makes it attractive to prepare ics”; a front-page editorial denounces “in- the site, should developers’ appetite ex- tellectual brothels [where] cheating and 1989 Plans announced in January to tend westward. illegitimate tutoring [are] elevated to…a assign one-sixth of the freshmen to the The academic and enterprise groups large scale commercial enterprise,” thus upperclass Houses randomly are retracted will exist for a few years at least, Garber enabling some undergraduates to pass (at least for a year) by dean of the College suggested, assisted where necessary by courses without doing any work whatso- L. Fred Jewett under pressure from irate support staf and consultants. They report ever, “making a mockery of a Harvard frst-years and worried House masters. to a steering committee. Garber is chair, education, a lie of a Harvard diploma.” joined by Lapp; the deans of law, design, Olympians Lane MacDonald ’89 and Allen SEAS, HBS, and the Faculty of Arts and 1954 After 17 years of partial assis- Bourbeau ’89 help lead the men’s hockey Sciences (FAS); a professor of urban plan- tance, the Business School agrees to be- team to sudden-death overtime victory ning who has completed significant as- come a full partner in Radcliffe’s one-year and the NCAA championship in St. Paul. signments in Boston (including the master plan for the Seaport innovation district); and administrators— significantly including Har- vard’s senior development, gov- ernment relations, and financial ofcers. They are responsible, he said, for “Allston develop- ment from a holistic perspec- tive”: how pieces fit together, design, financing, and permit- ting. The steering committee will coordinate its work with the detailed planning and cap- ital-budgeting functions man- aged by Katie Lapp, and with the schools, and issue recom- mendations to Faust. The Cor- poration’s finance and capital- planning committees will also weigh in, before the governing board decides to authorize de- velopment projects. The schematic plan for greater Allston laid out in the Illustration by Mark Steele Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746.