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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...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Supporting Assault Survivors | 4/16/2003 | See Source »

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?...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, COTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alphabetic Acrobats Displayed | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, COTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alphabetic Acrobats Displayed | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, COTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alphabetic Acrobats Displayed | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, COTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alphabetic Acrobats Displayed | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

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