Word: historicization
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So "Mem" has survived. The Cambridge Historical Commission succeeded in having the building placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. And restorations in 1976 and 1985, as well as the current construction project, have returned it to a less squalid state
"China's early economic restructuring stem[s] from a deep-rooted historic and cultural background, which can best be characterized by pragmatism and realism free from ideological constraints," Sung-Joo said at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum.
A Cambridge architects and Harvard alumnus is battling to save Memorial Hall's historic appearance, but he's not likely to have much effect.
Philip A. Rizzo, who has written a book on Cambridge buildings, objects to plans which will attach a loading bays and a kitchen to the Kirkland Street side of the historic hall. He has protested to President Neil L. Rudenstine and alumni including Vice President Al Gore '69.
A brief review of history is helpful to understand how Harvard has gotten lost on the way to providing undergraduate education. Under President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, Harvard's curriculum changed from historic humanistic breadth to an elective system of instruction. Fields of concentration and distribution requirements were...