Word: bard
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...Joel Bard, a member of ACID, says the group recognized that Harvard could legally build on its own property within the campus, but saw an opportunity to work with the University and get some benefits out of the deal...
There’s a reason the Bard imitated Plautus’ work so closely: the play’s plot, characterizations and jokes are undeniably hilarious...
Lovers of Shakespeare, look no further. A new student group for those infatuated with the Bard has sprung up at the College...
...Jupiter Hammon. Others are more surprising: Francis Williams, a free black from Jamaica who studied at Cambridge University in the early 1700s; George White, a former slave from Virginia who only learned to read at age 42 yet became a preacher and published author; and the anonymous "Sable Bard" of 1797 who tells his story in verse, from enslavement as a child in Africa, transport to America, and service in the Revolutionary War, to manumission and the struggle to survive as a freeman. Most mysterious of all is "Itaniko," the pseudonymous black poet of 1802 who identifies himself only...
...vision, alas, may be a little far-fetched. Yet it is just too hard to hear about friends from Amherst or Simon’s Rock College of Bard talk about having singles, when my own room would explode if more than three people ventured in at the same time. The fact remains that Harvard housing doesn’t live up to Harvard standards. Perhaps I just expect the University to live up to its professed goal of being the best at everything. Until Harvard’s dorms get a little less crowded, I’ll still...