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This month in Harvard historyJune 1913 - Having proved itself during a five-year experimental period, the Business School emerges from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to become an independent graduate school. June 16, 1913 - The cornerstone of Widener Library is laid. June 21, 1927 - The Fogg Museum formally opens its new quarters on Quincy St. A large-scale special-loan exhibition features the College's early silver collection, Maya art from the Peabody Museum, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, drawings, tapestries, furniture, ivories, enamels, and other objects. June 1940 - The Radcliffe Board of Trustees authorizes the use of Radcliffe dormitories for temporarily housing European refugee children. June 15, 1954 - The Gordon McKay Laboratory of Applied Science is dedicated. June 29, 1962 - Toting some 3,000 pounds of music, supplies, and instruments, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and HRO Conductor Michael C. Senturia '58 arrive in Mexico City for a 59-day cultural-exchange concert tour of Mexico. June 21, 1971 - In the basement of the Memorial Church, the Harvard Yard Day Care Center opens, ready to serve about 25 children. n Late June 1979 - The Harvard Computing Center welcomes five members of the newly established Information-Processing and Training Center for International Economic Cooperation (IPTC) of the People's Republic of China, who are on an information-gathering visit to similar facilities around the U.S. June 7, 1982 - In Sanders Theatre, Kermit the Frog (of Muppets fame) addresses the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1982. - From the Harvard Historical Calendar, a database compiled by Marvin Hightower
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