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Harvard University's Smith Campus Center (formerly Holyoke Center) is a brutalist administrative and service building located in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Opposite the Wadsworth Gate to Harvard Yard on Massachusetts Avenue , it functions as a student center , as well as housing Harvard administrative offices, University Health ...
Designed by two Harvard Presidents, John Leverett and Benjamin Wadsworth, between 1718 and 1720 for the housing of sixty-four students, the building served various functions over the years, including a refuge for American soldiers during the Siege of Boston, and an observatory after Thomas Hollis' donation of a twenty-four-foot telescope in ...
A view of Smith's campus c. 1900. The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty. [13] When Smith inherited a fortune from her father aged 65, she decided that leaving her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will: [14]
Smith Center may refer to: Smith Center, Kansas, a city in the United States; Smith Center for the Performing Arts, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Smith Campus Center, a building at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. Charles E. Smith Center, an arena at George Washington University in Washington D.C., U.S.
A 76-year-old patient sitter has been sentenced for assaulting a 68-year-old man with the remote control for a hospital bed. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, Eleanor Flowers, of Washington, D.C., was ...
Harvard commissioned architects Sert, Jackson and Associates to design and build the facility. Josep Lluis Sert, who had become Dean of the Harvard School of Design in 1953, had designed a number of other Harvard buildings, including Peabody Terrace, Holyoke Center (now the Smith Campus Center), and the Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions.
Dr. Thomas O’Brien and his wife Ruth Reardon O’Brien, the parents of late night comedian Conan O’Brien, have died three days apart. Thomas was 95 and Ruth was 92. Thomas died on Monday, Dec ...
Students attend a vigil for TCU student Wes Smith on the university’s campus on Wednesday, September 6, 2023, in Fort Worth. Smith was shot and killed in an apparently random act of violence on ...