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...decision is a light at the end of the tunnel for acting Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam, who told The Crimson earlier this winter how “content, relaxed, and happy” his predecessor Gross looks, months after being relieved of the burdens of the office...
...this weekend. “Doubt,” which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, tells the story of an abusive priest named Father Flynn, who is accused by Sister Aloysius of sexually abusing a student. Wright cites the play’s relevance and powerful thematic content as the primary reasons behind her decision to direct it this semester. “Even though this play is about the Catholic priest scandal, it is a debate play as well about ‘Old’ Catholicism and ‘New’ Catholicism because Sister Aloysius...
...message delivered there, however, remained a mystery, because the children refused to reveal the content of the vision they had been vouchsafed. Two of them died in childhood during an epidemic; but in 1941, Lucia, the survivor and by then a nun, released a description of the first two "secrets" from the Virgin that made headlines all over the world. One was a vivid vision of Hell; the other was a prediction that World War I would end, but "if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI." Both would...
...Hunters, bushrangers and soldiers wore kangaroo and possum skins and copied the Aborigines' moccasins, trying native foods and Aboriginal bush-burning techniques. Within two years of settlement, convicts were living in the bush year-round. Ejected from their homeland before the Industrial Revolution, they had simple expectations and were content to survive as nomadic hunters and shepherds. Nowhere else in the British Empire, says Boyce, "did the British adapt so quickly to the environment." Their dealings with Aborigines swung between cordial and violent, but there was little of the slaughter that was to come...
...books, photographs, and other historical artifacts and make them accessible to individuals around the world, including people not affiliated with Harvard. The program—led by HUL Associate Director Barbara S. Graham and archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff—catalogs material based on subject matter and historical content. Sniffin-Marinoff described the plan as a counterpart to the Google Books project, which is working with HUL to digitize all of Harvard’s shelved books and manuscripts. Prior projects digitized as part of the Open Collections Program include “Women Working...