Harkness Theatre - Revision history

Reaganaut at 07:12, 22 November 2012

2012-11-22T07:12:29Z

Reaganaut at 07:11, 22 November 2012

2012-11-22T07:11:55Z

Pacman at 05:41, 28 May 2009

2009-05-28T05:41:49Z

Pacman at 05:41, 28 May 2009

2009-05-28T05:41:23Z

Sixth Floor Jay: added information, revised

2009-05-28T05:01:39Z

added information, revised

Pacman at 21:06, 7 May 2008

2008-05-07T21:06:19Z

Absentminded: New page: The '''Harkness Theatre''' was a theater located in the basement, of Butler Library. This put it just below street level, resulting in a convenient public entrance from 114th Street. T...

2008-05-07T18:20:37Z

New page: The '''Harkness Theatre''' was a theater located in the basement, of Butler Library. This put it just below street level, resulting in a convenient public entrance from 114th Street. T...

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The '''Harkness Theatre''' was a theater located in the basement, of [[Butler Library]]. This put it just below street level, resulting in a convenient public entrance from 114th Street. The theatre has since been subsumed into office space which now fills the first floor of the library.

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−	The '''Harkness Theatre''' was a famous lecture hall located in the basement, of [[Butler Library]]. This put it just below street level, resulting in a convenient public entrance from 114th Street.	+	The '''Harkness Theatre''' was a famous lecture hall located in the basement of [[Butler Library]]. This put it just below street level, resulting in a convenient public entrance from 114th Street.

	The room was named for donor [[Edward Harkness]], who supplied the funds for the construction of the library.		The room was named for donor [[Edward Harkness]], who supplied the funds for the construction of the library.

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 The room was named for donor [[Edward Harkness]], who supplied the funds for the construction of the library.
-Harkness, with its paneled walls, its high cherrywood podium facing fixed wooden seats on a steeply raked floor, was the University's most dramatic lecture hall and (if only because it could accomodate professors whom everyone wanted to hear) probably its most prestigious humanities lecture hall. Lionel Trilling, for instance, customarily lectured in Harkness. Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow set Sammler's celebrated lecture scene (p.36ff, Mr. Sammler's Planet 1970) in Harkness-- one of the more famous moments in 20th century American literature.
+Harkness, with its paneled walls, its high cherrywood podium facing fixed wooden seats on a steeply raked floor, was the University's most dramatic lecture hall and (if only because it could accomodate professors whom everyone wanted to hear) probably its most prestigious humanities lecture hall. [[Lionel Trilling]], for instance, customarily lectured in Harkness. [[Nobel Prize]] winner Saul Bellow set Sammler's celebrated lecture scene<ref>p.36ff, ''Mr. Sammler's Planet'', 1970</ref> in Harkness-- one of the more famous moments in 20th century American literature.
 Harkness Theatre disappeared during the wave of construction during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The theatre is now office space.
 [[Category:Rooms on the Morningside Heights campus]]

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-The '''Harkness Theatre''' was a lecture hall located in the basement, of [[Butler Library]]. This put it just below street level, resulting in a convenient public entrance from 114th Street. The theatre has since been subsumed into office space which now fills the first floor of the library.
+The '''Harkness Theatre''' was a famous lecture hall located in the basement, of [[Butler Library]]. This put it just below street level, resulting in a convenient public entrance from 114th Street.
-The room was named for donor [[Edward Harkness]], who supplied the funds for the construction of the library. It disappeared during the wave of renovations that rehabilitated the library during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
+The room was named for donor [[Edward Harkness]], who supplied the funds for the construction of the library.
 [[Category:Rooms on the Morningside Heights campus]]

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−	The '''Harkness Theatre''' was a ~~theater~~ located in the basement, of [[Butler Library]]. This put it just below street level, resulting in a convenient public entrance from 114th Street. The theatre has since been subsumed into office space which now fills the first floor of the library.	+	The '''Harkness Theatre''' was a lecture hall located in the basement, of [[Butler Library]]. This put it just below street level, resulting in a convenient public entrance from 114th Street. The theatre has since been subsumed into office space which now fills the first floor of the library.
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		+	The room was named for donor [[Edward Harkness]], who supplied the funds for the construction of the library. It disappeared during the wave of renovations that rehabilitated the library during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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		+	[[Category:Rooms on the Morningside Heights campus]]