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Tag: Corydon Ireland
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Campus & Community
Storied Irving Street paves way to history
Cambridge’s Irving Street has been the inspirational home to, among others, a famed psychologist, poet, chef, historian, chemist, and physicist.
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Nation & World
‘One for the ages’
The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding gay marriage nationally is “one for the ages,” a Harvard legal analyst said, a judgment echoed by others.
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Arts & Culture
Karplus on film
More than 75 years after being expelled from his homeland by the Nazis, Austria-born Martin Karplus, a Harvard theoretical chemist and Nobel laureate, returned to Vienna in May in triumph — and as a film star. The mid-June American release of “Martin Karplus — The Invisible Made Visible” yet to be announced.
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Campus & Community
Sea of Crimson, canopy of green
The sights and sounds of Harvard’s joyful 364th Commencement in the Yard.
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Campus & Community
Youthful wisdom, times 3
Student orators plan messages of hope, kindness, commitment, and perspective.
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Campus & Community
Deep into the past
Harvard’s traditional Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises showcased gifted graduates, gifted teachers, gifted members of the Class of 1965, and a poet and orator who both looked to the past to call up lessons for the future.
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Campus & Community
Words as well as drawings
The Graduate School of Design’s Héctor Tarrido-Picart, who earned two degrees, is drawn to bustling cities, and to the literature that defines them.
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Campus & Community
100 years of Widener
The massive library, which rose after the Titanic sank, remains a linchpin of learning and conservation at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Seal of approval
Harvard’s motto, Veritas, has a long — and for two centuries, invisible — history.
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Arts & Culture
Robert Darnton closes the book
A historian, digital library pioneer, and champion of books, Robert Darnton will depart Harvard early this summer, giving up his post as University Librarian to resume a life of full-time scholarship.
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Nation & World
Medal of Honor moment
Three recipients of the nation’s highest military award ― all Vietnam veterans ― toured Harvard’s Memorial Church during a visit on May 8.
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Nation & World
Europe’s calmer side
A Harvard Summer School course will take a novel approach to European history, examining centuries of violence through the lens of peace.
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Campus & Community
Great adventures
Students in “The Humanities Colloquium: Essential Works 2” received an education both in and out of the classroom.
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Campus & Community
‘A completely new life was beckoning’
Interview with Gerald Holton as part of the Experience series.
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Arts & Culture
Walt Whitman’s war
A Harvard panel assesses Walt Whitman’s vivid and pictorial ‘Drum-Taps,’ a collection of Civil War poems out in print for the first time in 150 years. Professor Elisa New will explore “Drum-Taps” (along with Melville’s war poems) in a new HarvardX online American poetry course, which launches May 8.
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Science & Tech
Redesigning design contests
A Harvard conference on design competitions — which can be creative, ubiquitous, and troubling — lays out the present controversies surrounding them, and some solutions.
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Arts & Culture
Unsettled by the bomb
A historian’s new book outlines the little-known role of black Americans in international campaigns to ban nuclear weapons.
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Arts & Culture
Celebrating Widener
Two lectures launched a yearlong celebration of Widener Library, which turns 100 this June.
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Campus & Community
For those with a head for history
A sample in images from the abundance of hats — Panama, pillbox, porkpie, and more — in Harvard’s holdings.
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Nation & World
Night of terror
The Rev. Clark Olsen, S.T.B. ’59, who witnessed the 1965 Selma, Ala., murder that accelerated passage of the Voting Rights Act, launched a two-day Harvard look back at the Civil Rights era.
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Campus & Community
Remembering Bill Crout
At 10 a.m. on April 10, the Memorial Church will host a service in remembrance of William R. Crout, founder of the Paul Tillich Lectures.
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Arts & Culture
They build, but modestly
Speaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, two French architects advocate building and rebuilding based on modesty, generosity, and economy, with an eye to comfort and beauty.
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Arts & Culture
A close glimpse of James Baldwin
Houghton Library recently acquired its 3,000th American item, the typescript of an unproduced James Baldwin play — a rich tangle of the author’s obsessions in need of a scholar’s clarifying touch.
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Arts & Culture
Seeing, feeling, being
A symposium will investigate what makes us human, and go beyond philosophy to do it.
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Arts & Culture
Making print modern
In an age of bits and bytes and pixels and text on screens, Harvard Design Magazine — relaunched in a new format last year ― fervently embraces the thingness of print, the quotidian actuality of paper and ink.
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Arts & Culture
A literary colossus
The new Murty Classical Library of India from Harvard University Press, aiming for 500 volumes over the next century, will reveal to the world a “colossal Indian past” of multilanguage literary history from as far back as two millennia.
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Science & Tech
Stages of design
Three exhibits at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall represent different facets of how design learning gets done.
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Campus & Community
Learning on the fly
First-generation students bring lessons to Harvard ― of resilience, perseverance, and of talent’s universality.
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Arts & Culture
The rule-breaking Sisters Grimke
“Exiled by the sound of the lash” from the slaveholding state of South Carolina, the Grimké sisters came North before the Civil War with rule-breaking ideas on slavery’s wrongs and women’s rights. They represented an antebellum moment in which “women became political.”
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Arts & Culture
Toward total war
Experts on World War I gathered for a conference on the “great seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century.
