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Harvard news and notes, spring 2000
The University Brevia PH.D. MAGIC: Illustration by Rick Stromoski Each Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin features "BackTalk," a...
Inc.@theCollege
When Alex M. Rampell '03 started investigating college options, the young inventor's computer program--which sells for $15 and combats...
John Knowles Paine
Harvard's first professor of music was born in Portland, Maine, where his father led the town band, owned the music store, and published music...
Lost Art
The Harvard Dictionary of Music defined "improvisation" in 1969 as "[t]he art of performing music spontaneously, without the aid of manuscript...
Alchemist's Ink
What alchemy makes images on paper move? The secret, Jerome Rubin explains, in in the ink ...
Fourth-Century Church Tales
Mount Athos, jutting up from the Aegean Sea in northeastern Greece, is a place of austere traditions. Twenty Greek Orthodox monasteries cling...
Fashion Victims?
I have to ask. I've seen it every day for three years now. Take your pick of location: the main doors of Sever and Emerson ....
Reflecting on 35 Years of the NEA
Reflecting on 35 Years of the NEA Diva Jessye Norman, D.Mus. '88, sang to honor the thirty-fifth anniversary of the National Endowment for the...
History Minted
The loss of the coins focused attention on their real value to Harvard. "Made of silver and bronze as well as gold, some of them rank as...
Celebratory Meals
If you wanted to treat us to a celebratory dinner--because, let's say, we were about to pull down a summa in classics--here are some restaurants...
Good Poets Make Bad Neighbors
Frosty times on the Sandburg range
Off the Shelf
The View from Nebo: How Archaeology Is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East, by Amy Dockser Marcus '87 (Little, Brown, $25.95)...