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During a Crimson Key Society tour, a crimson-clad guide delivers this fact: “Harvard President Abbot Lawrence Lowell once said that the Harvard undergraduate should know ‘a little bit of everything, and something well...
...brief question-and-answer session following the performance, the vice abbot of the monks explained that the practice of throat singing was actually developed to intentionally and necessarily obfuscate the words of the liturgical texts performed...
Clad in traditional ochre robes, the group was comprised of thirteen singing monks and accompanied by one attendant monk who acted as a shrine master and a silent performer of offerings, serving the vice abbot of their own Gyuto Tantric University. The monks came to Harvard under the aegis of WorldMusic/CRASHarts, an organization for the advancement of international arts funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council...
...Closing with a wish for peace that elicited repeated applause from the audience, the charismatic vice abbot emphasized compassion in his remarks. He said that he had never before seen such kindness and love between animals and humans as he had witnessed here in the U.S. between doting pet owners and the creatures with whom they share their homes...
...Crimson’s has accelerated this process a bit by making it retroactive, and as such allows us a small taste of what’s to come. Much of the information therein is more or less innocuous: it’s unlikely that the family of E.Q. Abbot ’06 (that’s 1906) is going to be terribly embarrassed by his chess defeat at the hands of A. Breese of Yale in November of 1904, particularly given that the Harvard team won out in the end. The great great grandchildren of Joseph M. Cromwell...