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Harvard will host first-round soccer competition for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee announced last week.
Subject to final approval by the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), four of the world's top 16 soccer teams will play a round-robin tournament at the Stadium. It will be the first time the University has ever been the scene of an Olympic event.
Olympic officials said they chose the Stadium because it is one of the few U.S. facilities meeting 11 of FIFA's requirements. Soccer fields are about 22 yards wider than American football playing surfaces, and FIFA requires natural turf. Most American stadiums large enough for soccer have artificial surfaces or host baseball teams, thus disqualifying them for consideration as Olympic soccer sites.
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Construction of the Fogg Art Museum's controversial $8.5 million extension is proceeding on schedule, but a lawsuit filed in Great Britain has again raised questions about the reliability and competence of the new wing's architect.
Cambridge University is suing James Stirling for negligence and breach of contract in connection with an internationally acclaimed building that he designed for the University more than 15 years ago.
The British university alleges that, because of design flaws in the pyramidal structure, tiles have been falling off its sides onto passersby for more than a year.
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Harvard graduate programs have been rated among the top ten by faculty members nationwide according to part of a recently released survey.
The University's Classics, Philosophy, Spanish Language and Literature and Zoology departments were rated number one in the country based on the scholarly quality of the faculty.
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While Harvard students were searching for ways to back out more pages per hour, a conference of 80 major business and university leaders met this month in search of methods to increase other types of productivity. The Business-Higher Education Forum met at the request of President Reagan to produce a detailed paper on "innovation policy"--the search for new areas of cooperation between business, government and universities to invigorate the U. S. econony.