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  Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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  A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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  Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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  This 1895 map of New York City was created by socialist activist Walter Vrooman, who hoped that by showing the "concrete socialism" of every street, park, school, public building, and public dock in red (and allowing private enterprises to recede into the white background), he might persuade readers that the rest of the map should be socialist as well.
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(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
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Callimachus

Brief life (via Platonic dialogue) of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
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May-June 2011

Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events around the country. For information on future programs, contact your local club directly; call the HAA at 617-495-3070; or visit www.haa.harvard.edu. Below is a partial list of spring happenings.

On May 3, the Harvard Club of Eastern New York hosts astronomy professor Alyssa Goodman, who lectures on “Seeing Science.” On May 12, McKay professor of computer science Harry Lewis discusses “The Future of Liberal Education” at the Harvard Club of Minnesota. Lewis also elucidates “Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion” for members of the Harvard Club of St. Louis on June 5.

On June 1, the Harvard Club of Princeton welcomes Robert Sackstein, an associate professor of dermatology and medicine, for a discussion of “What Everyone Should Know about Stem Cells.”

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