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...class or a world mythology class to supplement the current offerings.“We don’t really have a course in Greek and Roman mythology, especially for freshman who read those stories as children,” Tatar said.The world mythology class would be a broader year-long survey taught on a rotating basis by a set of colleagues specializing in myths from different parts of the world.Its introduction would be an appropriate one for this imaginative community.“Our students are a mirror image of our faculty,” Mitchell said...
...honor to bear the title, ‘curator of poetry,’ which seems to sum up in seven syllables my relationship with poetry—‘to care for’ poetry.” There has been a year-long lull during which the books, broadsides, pamphlets, and recordings of the Woodberry collection have been without a permanent curator. With this in mind, Davis has arrived with plans not only to update the collection, but also to foster poetry on campus and in the surrounding area. “My great hope...
...actually do not know.”She added that Harvard could be more affected because it “has been very well represented in the financial services industry,” though she said she did not know the percentage of alumni working in that sector.Following a year-long slump, financial markets have nose-dived in recent weeks as a series of financial shocks have hit Wall Street, including the failure of Lehman Brothers, the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest government bailout to date, an $85-billion loan to the American...
...mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the largest government bailout to date—an $85 billion loan to the American Insurance Group, Inc., an insurance company whose near-collapse some feared would send the financial system into a tailspin. The headline-grabbing failures follow a year-long financial decline, caused by unexpectedly high rates of home loan defaults that tore through the economy and wiped out billions in capital. The downturn accelerated in recent months as lenders, spooked by steep losses and high-profile bank failures, tightened their purse strings. As Harvard’s endowment...
...Club 47 or Passim would,” Susan Scotti, the club’s gallery coordinator, says. “I think there’s no other club in the country like that that has that kind of history.” The plans for the year-long celebration of the club’s 50th Anniversary—marked by the return of over 20 artists for a January hootenanny, a March Joan Baez concert, and a concert this Saturday by Mavis Staples, Chris Smither, and Ollabelle—is evidence of this fact. According to Millie...