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As chair of the Reform Minyan at Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, I have to ask, please, don't call us the Reformed Minyan ("Problems with Hillel's Architecture Persist," news story, Dec. 11). Since the Reform Movement was founded in the mid-1700s with the idea of thinking about religious practices...
History 10: "Western Societies, Politics and Cultures," could be the second introductory class to join the core. Literature and Arts B-10: "Art and the Visual Culture: Introduction to the Historical Study of Art and Architecture," formerly Fine Arts 13, was modified and added the core curriculum this fall.
For Poussin, the real contained the ideal. He did not generalize like an academic classicist. His paintings are full of precisely observed detail -- pebbles and flowers, plants and springs of water. The atmosphere in which forms are bathed is real, whether it's the blue silken light of spring in...
Poussin also found a special relationship between architecture and the human body. On his return to France, Poussin visited Nimes (as Thomas Jefferson would, 150 years later) to admire its Roman temple, the so-called Maison Carree. "The beautiful girls you will have seen at Nimes," he wrote to Chantelou...
Sever's architecture allows for special acoustics: a student standing on one side of the entrance arch can speak into the bricks and let the echo carry the words to a listener on the other side.