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Maisie K. Houghton '62, one of the donors, says she and her husband gave to Harvard because she considers it responsible for her education...
...Women] applied to Radcliffe, but any young woman of my day knew that we wanted the Harvard education, and that's what we wanted to honor in our gift," says Houghton, who is an advocate for women's issues in Corning, N.Y. "We're interested in the undergraduate experience, which is, let's face it, administered by Harvard...
Radcliffe supporters said they have also felt slighted because in April, Maisie K. Houghton '62 and James R. Houghton '58 donated $1.25 million to Harvard--not Radcliffe--to establish an endowment for a women's initiative project at Harvard...
...Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry--a post he holds to this day--Knowles swiftly earned the professional respect of both his students and scientists worldwide...
Novels do not ordinarily dabble with too much exactitude in current events or upcoming headlines; fiction writers hope, after all, that their work will outlast the rapid stream of passing fancies. But Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) arrives as a noteworthy exception to that rule. On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People's Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Kowloon Tong offers Theroux's imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared--and will fare...