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Currently students face an alphabet soup of Harvard agencies to contact: University Health Services (UHS), Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), Bureau of Student Counsel (BSC), Sexual Assault/Sexual Harassment (SASH) tutors, the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC), among others...
Other featured books include the first Russian alphabet book, published in 1717, and a 1920’s Turkish publication for children promoting En Güzel Alfabe “The most beautiful alphabet,” or the Roman alphabet imported by Kemal Atat?...
Another book published in 1529, employs bizarre diagrams, including one of a man stretched out into an O-shape. The diagram attempts to show that the letters of the Roman alphabet correspond to the shapes of the human body...
...lanched a massive government and publicity campaign to replace the complicated Arabic script the country had used for hundreds of years. The work bears a colorful frontispiece showing a boy and girl riding a stork, which delivers a bundle of letters to the cheerful homes below, as though the alphabet were a new baby...
This depiction of the alphabet as cultural symbol is also evident in Thomas More’s Utopia, for which Peter Giles created a simple and rational alphabet befitting of More’s rational kingdom...