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...time Pulitzer Prize winner John H. Updike ’54, who showed early signs of his writing prowess while walking the halls of Harvard’s English department, died in late January of lung cancer at the age of 76. Updike authored more than 50 books over the course of his decades-long career and won two Pulitzers for his works “Rabbit is Rich” and “Rabbit at Rest...
...eventful term as President of The Harvard Lampoon in 1953—kidnapping the president of The Harvard Crimson and orchestrating a close save of The Lampoon’s famed ibis statue. A noted perfectionist, he graduated summa cum laude the following year with a degree in English before going on to a fellowship at Oxford and a job at The New Yorker...
...simply went on talking without interruption. That was just overwhelming.” Iriye first worked with May in 1957, when Iriye came to Harvard as a graduate student. May eventually became his dissertation advisor. As an international student from Japan, Iriye said he sometimes struggled with writing in English, but May spent dozens of hours poring over Iriye’s dissertation line by line with his foreign pupil and even helped him write his conclusion when Iriye found himself pressed to finish by his deadline. Philip D. Zelikow—a student of May’s over...
...professorship—named after former English professor Francis O. Matthiessen, whose homosexuality was an open secret during his time at Harvard—marks a step forward in the larger movement seeking to legitimize fields like LGBT studies, according to Timothy P. McCarthy, a lecturer in public policy and in history and literature...
...There had been no disagreement over the facts of the case. On Feb. 2, as Wen was wrapping up his speech "See China in the Light of Her Development" to the students of the venerable English university, Jahnke started blowing a whistle and shouting, asking how the university could "prostitute itself" by letting a "dictator" speak. As university staff moved to evict him, Jahnke threw one of this shoes toward the podium, missing the Premier by three feet, before following officials and police out of the auditorium without resistance. (See pictures of the shoe-throwing incident in Iraq...