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...lack of confidence in him last March 14.The Corporation has yet to make any sort of statement regarding this month’s firestorm. But Glaeser said the board must go beyond issuing press releases.“What I’m actually looking for is Mr. Houghton to actually attend a Faculty meeting and make it clear what the rules are going forward,” Glaeser said, referring to James R. Houghton ’58, the Corporation’s senior fellow.“Because, clearly, the University is not entirely well...
Thomas and three of his colleagues on the Council—the Faculty’s elected 19-member governing body—met with three Corporation members last Monday, a day before the Faculty meeting. Council members were told that James R. Houghton ’58, Nannerl O. Keohane, and Robert D. Reischauer were at the meeting with four Council members last week, according to J.D. Connor ’92, an assistant professor of visual and environmental studies and of English who serves on the Faculty Council...
...foggiest notion” of how many volumes wrapped in human hide exist throughout the system, says Director of University Libraries Sidney Verba ’53. But they have identified three such volumes in the Langdell Law Library, Countway Library of Medicine, and the Houghton Collection. The three books range in content from medieval law to Roman poetry to French philosophy...
Back in Harvard Yard, in the rarefied confines of Harvard’s Houghton Collection, resides “Des destinées de l’ame...,” a collection of essays meditating on the human spirit by Arsène Houssaye, a French poet and essayist...
...Given to Houghton in June 1954 by the wife of John B. Stetson, the small book—approximately three by six inches—sports gold trim. Its binding features a greenish-gold hue as well as visible pores...