This month in Harvard history

Feb. 12, 1974 – The Faculty of Arts and Sciences approves a three-year trial for a new undergraduate honors concentration in the Comparative Study of Religion, limited to 10 students per year.

Feb. 27, 1974 – In Boylston Hall, scholars from Harvard (H. Stuart Hughes and Edward Keenan) and Boston College (Yuri Glazov) discuss “Solzhenitsyn: Issues and Implications,” focusing on the political and moral questions raised by the Soviet author’s literary work and his exile.

Feb. 6-7, 1975 – Legendary ragtime composer-pianist Eubie Blake visits Harvard for two days of events celebrating his 92nd birthday (Feb. 7). Blake attends a Faculty Club luncheon in his honor, visits classes in Afro-American Studies, and (on his birthday) gives a Sanders Theatre concert featuring rags and show tunes (sung by Emme Kemp and Mary Louise).

Feb. 10, 1975 – At the Science Center, Shirley Graham Du Bois – widow of W. E. B. Du Bois, Class of 1890, AM ’91, PhD ’95 – discusses “The Black Struggle: Then and Now” as part of Du Bois Day activities organized for Black History Week by the Du Bois Institute Student Committee and the Consortium of Boston Area Black Studies Departments. Mrs. Du Bois appears as the guest of Harvard’s Afro-American Studies Department.

Feb. 12, 1975 – An oil portrait of Biology Professor Alwin Max Pappenheimer, fourth Master of Dunster House (1962-70), is unveiled in the Dunster Senior Common Room. Donated and commissioned by members of the Senior Common Room, the 37-by-42-inch portrait was painted by Grace Reasoner.

Feb. 12, 1975 – An oil portrait of Biology Professor Alwin Max Pappenheimer, fourth Master of Dunster House (1962-70), is unveiled in the Dunster Senior Common Room. Donated and commissioned by members of the Senior Common Room, the 37-by-42-inch portrait was painted by Grace Reasoner.

Feb. 15, 1975 – To mark the 155th birthday of woman’s suffrage leader Susan Brownell Anthony, the Schlesinger Library publishes a left-profile photographic poster of Anthony in old age.

– From the Harvard Historical Calendar, a database compiled by Marvin Hightower