July 19, 2001

Courtyard entertainment Shakespeare's delightful "A Midsummer Night's Dream" will be staged in the Adams House courtyard, July 25 and 26. Full story

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Unique film of Impressionist Renoir at work is found at Department of Comparative Literature
For 44 years a small disc-shaped metal canister rested in a closet at the Comparative Literature Department's office in Boylston Hall. Nobody opened it. Nobody knew what it was.

A totem pole comes home
Tlingit artifact is returned to Alaska
A century after it was given to Harvard by railroad tycoon Edward Harriman, the Tlingit totem pole that formerly stood guard in the Peabody Museum's Hall of the North American Indian is returning to its original home on the coast of Alaska.

Harvard's band Pops at Hatch Shell
Under the artistic direction of Thomas Everett, the Harvard Summer Pops Band will present its annual concert at the Hatch Shell on Saturday, Aug. 4, at 7 p.m. Bassoonist Dale Clark will be the guest soloist. The Harvard Summer Pops Band will also perform in Harvard Yard on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at 4 p.m.

Strange sights of summer
Since summer's lease hath all too short a date, why not make the most of it by catching a performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," staged in the open air of Adams House courtyard?

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