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Although Harvard was the only bidder on most of the land, a bidding war of sorts did erupt over the tiny 1.4 acre piece of the land located between Harvard and Houghton Chemical, a small industrial company that currently operates on the parcel...
...months before it was published as a book, biologist Rachel Carson's eloquent, rigorous attack on the overuse of DDT and other pesticides--she called them "elixirs of death"--had already upset the chemical industry. Velsicol, maker of two top bug killers, threatened to sue the book's publisher, Houghton Mifflin, which stood firm but asked a toxicologist to recheck Carson's facts before it shipped Silent Spring to bookstores...
These plans were discussed under the tenure of Kirby’s predecessor, Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jeremy R. Knowles and were sketched out by none other than Lewis himself...
...Houghton collection includes Borges-themed comic books and records, and even a t-shirt featuring a caricature of the elderly writer...
...Woodberry Poetry Room serves as a repository for the spoken word. Harvard hosts numerous poetry readings each year, many of which are recorded and stored for posterity in Lamont—“a permanent record of these occasions,” according to Fearrington Libriarian of Houghton Library William P. Stoneman...