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Tag: Widener Library
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The Moore’s the merrier
It snowed on Julianne Moore’s parade, but the acclaimed actress and 2011 Woman of the Year didn’t let weather stop her from visiting Harvard for a tour, a roast, and the coveted Pudding Pot on Thursday (Jan. 27).
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Harvard College Librarian, Nancy Cline, to retire
After nearly 15 years of exceptional service, Nancy M. Cline, the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College, will retire at the end of this academic year.
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Her own creation
Artist, writer, and scholar Catherine Lord ’71 receives annual Harvard Arts Medal.
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Harvard College, MIT launch pilot program
Harvard College and MIT start pilot program that allows undergraduates at each school to access each other’s libraries.
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Looking ordinary, being exceptional
Harvard’s Fine Arts Library, in temporary digs at Littauer Hall, follows a gold standard for sustainability.
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Pudding Pot princess
Actress Anne Hathaway visits Harvard for a tour, a short parade, and a Pudding Pot as Woman of the Year.
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Freshman Parents Weekend
In October, Freshman Parents Weekend fills campus with mothers and fathers eager to and experience all aspects of Harvard life.
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Senior saves you the search for quiet spaces on campus
Caitlin Rotman ’10 reveals a few quiet spaces and tranquil places around campus.
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This month in Harvard history
June 1913 — Having proved itself during a five-year experimental period, the Business School emerges from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to become an independent graduate school.
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The Nobel for literature: An insider’s view
One of Per Wästberg’s best times as a college student in the 1950s was the night he got locked in Widener Library. “I got so enthralled [in the stacks], the library closed and I couldn’t get out,” Wästberg said with a laugh, noting that the floor of the library was nicer than his room at…
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Ken Burns to headline Theodore Roosevelt celebration
Theodore Roosevelt is considered a principal architect of the U.S. national park system. To help mark his 150th birthday this fall, noted filmmaker Ken Burns will come to Harvard to offer remarks and show clips from his upcoming documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” due out in fall 2009. Scheduled for Oct. 3 at…
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Mining a trove of old ballads gives women a new voice
In the mid-1930s, Milman Parry, a professor in the Department of the Classics at Harvard, traveled throughout Yugoslavia to research and record folk songs. Assisted by his former student Albert Lord, Parry spent 15 months on the road and returned to Harvard with innumerable texts and sound recordings of more than 1,500 epic songs. Their…