Tag: Harry Elkins Widener
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Campus & Community
Ode to a venerable library
Narrated by John Lithgow ’67, this visual love letter to libraries celebrates books and those who watch over them while marking the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard’s flagship library.
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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
Harvard’s ‘haunted’ Houses
A tour of Harvard’s “haunted” Houses, in advance of Halloween.
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Campus & Community
Harry’s books
A look at the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Collection at Widener Library.
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Arts & Culture
Echoes of the Titanic
On the centennial of the ship’s sinking, Harvard historian Steven Biel has a new edition of his book, which traces the cultural arc of that myth-making disaster.