Campus & Community

This month in Harvard history

1 min read
  • Jan. 1, 1920 – The Harvard football team scores a 7-6 win over Oregon in the Crimson’s only appearance at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
  • Jan. 12-13, 1921 – In the New (later Lowell) Lecture Hall, Rabindranath Tagore gives two public lectures on “Folk-Religion in Bengal” and “The Meeting of the East and West” as guest of the Division of Philosophy.
  • Jan. 11, 1934 – In Sanders Theatre, composer Arnold Schoenberg guest-conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in performances of Bach’s Organ Prelude and Fugue in E-flat (arr. Schoenberg), and his own Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night; arr. for string orchestra) and Pelleas und Melisande.– From the Harvard Historical Calendar, a database compiled by Marvin Hightower

You might like

Trending

  1. Health

    Should we be panicked about bird flu? William Hanage says not yet.

    But he warns that there is real cause for concern, CDC should take much closer look

    8 min read

  2. Nation & World

    Nuclear has changed. Will the U.S. change with it?

    Citing safety improvements and rising demand, analyst expects revival of energy with a checkered history

    7 min read

  3. Campus & Community

    Martin Karplus, pioneering figure in theoretical chemistry, dies at 94

    Nobel Prize winner helped transform understanding of molecular systems

    5 min read