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...Hilary Liller, who lived in Adams House from 1968 to 1974, from when she was two until eight, remembers, "I enjoyed it for the most part." Now a senior in high school, she finds Harvard "just too big" and has applied to smaller colleges, and says that the experience had no profound effects on her or her older brother...
...that time, however, children were less involved with students than they are today. Until 1970, for example, women were only allowed to eat in the dining halls twice a week, so the children ate at home, says mother Martha H. Liller, an astronomer with the Harvard College Observatory...
...says, "they're one of the most impressive things around here." The Plate Stacks are two floors of green metal cabinets full of stars captured in glass. This treasury, containing about half a million pictures which go back to the 1880s, forms the cornerstone of Building C. Martha Liller, guardian of the plates, explains that the expensive collection is one of the long-range investments of the Observatory; only in recent years has it begun to pay off in fashionable fields such as quasars and X-ray sources. She demonstrates the blink comparator, which is used to note changes...
...source close to Liller said that Bok had urged Liller to resign because there were many other faculty members who wanted to be Masters...
...denied last week that he had encouraged Liller to resign and said that he does not appoint Masters to specific terms...