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...Hanna Holborn Gray, former president of the University of Chicago, will join the Harvard Corporation effective July 1, 1997, the University announced yesterday...
President emerita of the University of chicago,Hanna Holborn Gray will speak at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology's commencement tomorrow.Gray, who has focused on the intellectual historyof the Renaissance and Reformation, Served aspresident at the University of Chicago from 1978to...
...others deny that the school's reputation still flourishes, if only as a mystique accumulated through time, like the water particles that make up an imposing cloud. "The very name Harvard has a kind of resonance," says Alumna Hanna Holborn Gray, president of the University of Chicago. Harvard is, after all, the school that educated Cotton Mather and Robert Oppenheimer and whose former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Henry Rosovsky, turned down the presidency of Yale in 1977 because he had important work to do at Harvard. It is the university where a student named Henry Thoreau...
...core curriculum. Undergraduates, traditionally a minority on campus, have earned a reputation as eggheads, grinds and worse. An edition of The Insider's Guide to the Colleges once observed that "studying is the U. of C. student's favorite pastime." Admits Chicago's president, Hanna Holborn Gray: "There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige...
...Presidency/Hugh Sidey Looking for Ideas That Work Ninety-six top thinkers, ranging from Hanna Holborn Gray, president of the University of Chicago, to George Gilder, the supply-side guru, worked their way through dozens of seminars, breakfast discussions and banquet speeches last week, unleashing a deluge of ideas to get America moving again...