Word: centuryã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...With Harvard graduates being at the vanguard of the political, academic, and economic worlds, we feel that the College should prepare us to deal with the troubling issues stemming from the 21st century??s first war,” DeAraujo wrote in an e-mail he sent to several groups encouraging students to apply...
...pomp surrounding the installation last week—a ceremony that dates back to the early 18th century??contrasted sharply with the plain words and forceful message that Summers delivered in the keynote address. In a brief speech, Summers laid out his plans for, among other measures, improving undergraduate education, hiring more faculty members, expanding into University-owned land in Allston and making Harvard into a “global” university. Although there are still some big questions left unanswered, the staff is gratified that many of the points made by the new president have been...
...strongest points of this exhibition is unfortunately hidden at the back of the show. 14 smaller postcards and photographs from the early twentieth-century??by both European and African photographers—offer a contextualization for Kïeta and Sidibé’s photographs. One of the most striking postcards is internally labeled “Young Arab Woman from Timbuktu,” showing a photograph of two topless women reclining in the pose of an odalisque. The photograph was taken by Francois-Edmund Fortier in 1905, and is quite obviously an example...