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...Perhaps the most impressive finds, though, were the fragments of moveable type from the first printing press in North America—the one housed in the Indian College. The small strips of metal that students uncovered actually played an important role in the development of American print culture. The Eliot Bible, the first published work in North America, was produced on the Indian College press in the local Algonquian language. “Digging Veritas” represents not only the physical excavations from multiple digs, but also the effects of years of cooperation between students, teachers, the public...
...pair of visiting professors, while looking ahead to the creation of a General Education portal course and even a secondary field.Until this past spring, the Standing Committee had not met for at least two years, said current committee chair and Professor of English and African and African American Studies Werner Sollors.In the past few decades, faculty bodies coordinating ethnic studies have shifted from ad hoc to standing committees. In multiple instances, students have organized to demand more academic options. The last big student push was in 2002, when a coalition failed to win approval for a certificate in ethnic studies...
...knowing smirk and gathering on forums to place bets on the release date of his inevitable comeback album. Surely the Bob Dylan of hip-hop wouldn’t be able to stay away from the studio for long before whipping up another street-lauded aural epic of ghetto American dreams. Six years later, the former Marcy Projects hustler has confirmed these suspicions with three post-retirement studio releases and a smattering of collaborations and compilations, but on “The Blueprint 3,” his eleventh LP, Jay-Z aligns quantity with quality, reaffirming his status...
...Pseudo. His unorthodox management style (which included dressing up as a clown when investors toured the office) eventually led to the company’s bankruptcy in 2000; Harris even fled to Africa to avoid mounting debt. Despite his disappearance, his many endeavors have not gone unnoticed, thanks to American filmmaker Ondi Timoner and her latest documentary, “We Live in Public.” Timoner presented the film in person last week at the Brattle Theatre...
Under the new artistic direction of Diane Paulus, the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is in for a massive rehaul. Forget about just breaking the fourth wall: Paulus is determined to conceive of the whole world as a stage, with audience members getting in on the play...