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...around the entire globe forever. This year, its centennial is being celebrated everywhere from Moscow, Hamburg, Stockholm, Canberra, and Paris to the Boston area. From April 15 through 17, Harvard will host a three-day Ballets Russes Symposium comprised of an exhibition of rare documents and art at the Pusey Library, student performances in conjunction with the Office for the Arts Dance Program, and a stellar array of lecturers and panelists at the New College Theatre.The Ballets Russes harkens back to Great War glamour and intrigue—a time that recalls Proust, Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky and Diaghilev all meeting...
...When Business School student John Browne requested formal recognition of the Harvard polo team in the late 1960s, the response from former President Nathan M. Pusey was explosive: “Polo? Polo is the last thing we need at this time at Harvard...
...Pusey, fatigued by the anti-Vietnam war movement on campus, was “very polite and charming,” Browne said—but the president didn’t see the point of endorsing a low-priority activity that required a programmatic structure the University couldn’t immediately offer...
...office. A Texan oil driller named Hap Sharp had donated six of his trade-out ponies to Harvard and dropped them off at Boston South Station for pick-up. “These belong to you—not to us,” Browne recalls telling Pusey as they handed him a telegram from Sharp. “They belong to Harvard.” In 1968, polo was recognized as an official Harvard club sport...
...student body has changed drastically over the years, but this anachronism, as Pusey Minister Peter J. Gomes called it in 1973, still remains. To reflect the diverse array of faiths on campus and act as an inclusive home for religious life at Harvard, Memorial Church should become a solely interfaith space...