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Harvard tickets for The Game have been sold out since Wednesday, leaving Crimson fans scrounging around for spare tickets from friends, House lists and even eBay. Though The Game sold out the last three times Harvard hosted it, this is the earliest it’s been sold out since 1986, Harvard Athletic Ticket Office manager Erin E. Hobin-Audet said yesterday. Total stadium capacity is about 31,000 people, and every Harvard seat has been sold by the ticket office or distributed to undergraduates, Hobin-Audet said. “We had some bleachers brought...
...heightened text?” Birnbaum says. One such actress is Alison H. Rich ’09, who plays the role of Dolly, one of the daughters. “Mary was really serious about putting out a good show and had us rehearse from the earliest possible date so we had lots of time to refine everything. There are larger than life sort of characters and a great cast of a lot of great new freshman that haven’t been seen before at Harvard,” Rich says. Students will have an opportunity to experience...
...Patrick’s plan to be environmentally conscious. To reduce pollution in the short term, he wants to expand investment in public transportation and give tax breaks for fuel-efficient cars and home appliances. He is also committed to clean energy. In fact, he was one of the earliest supporters of the Cape Wind Project, which will build a wind farm off the coast of Nantucket, when it was unpopular and politically risky. Patrick’s commitment to his values—in this case protecting the environment through renewable and clean energy—always comes before...
This wasn’t always the case. Harvard began as a seminary, and its earliest ideal was Charles Kingsley’s “manly Christian character,” which was propagated in the form of the daily chapel and which the liberal reformist Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, abolished in 1886. Later, with the rise of science, the intellectual program came to revolve around citizenship and manly duty to society and state, but even this identity was lost during the 60s. The inclusion of minorities in the university system made the enforcement of WASP virtues...
...professor of Asian art who was his mentor during his undergraduate years, turned to collecting. He soon acquired the two other pieces. Prince Shotoku was the founder of Japanese Buddhism, according to Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture Yukio Lippit. “This is the earliest dated example of the subject, and is especially significant since it comes with all of the objects interred inside,” Lippit explained. “These sort of sculptures were often hollowed out and filled with devotional objects. It generates karmic merit for the [person who commissioned...