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...yesterday evening’s “The Humanities and Your Financial Future,” an Advising Fortnight event put on by the English, History of Art and Architecture, History of Literature, and Music concentrations, four Harvard humanities graduates told stories that connected their undergraduate educations to their careers. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...parallels in their narrative arcs: miserable childhoods; the unprepared plunge into the media glare; success and scandals; and premature death. Socially poles apart, the onetime dental nurse born to poverty and the onetime nursery-school assistant born to nobility were the most prominent avatars of a wide strand of English celebrity culture, defiantly anti-intellectual and unashamedly emotional. "I suppose [Goody] was a kind of Princess Di from the wrong side of the tracks," mused comedian Stephen Fry on Twitter...
...About 15 people lined up on the "dock" (really, a front porch) and helped us clamber from our boat over theirs and into their one-room home. There wasn't much dialogue between the groups, given that none of the tourists spoke Khmer and our hosts didn't know English, but there was much smiling and cooing at the babies, one of whom was cooling off in a pot of water. We ate stir-fried veggies and tofu with a cabbage salad, sitting cross-legged on the floor. Through the slats, you could see the water a few feet below...
British interior designer Ilse Crawford has a knack for dusting off traditional English style without succumbing to clich. For the Olde Bell, a newly refurbished inn in the English village of Hurley, in Berkshire, she combined classic materials like tweed, oak and felt with sleeker touches like Bestlite bedside lamps and modern dining chairs. Guests will find discreet luxuries such as Aesop bath products, retro-style Roberts radios and Windsor rocking chairs. But the real focus at the Olde Bell is the common spaces. "It's all based around the table," says Crawford of the inn's public rooms...
...faculty,” Wiggins said. “The level of communication between professors and students—awareness of all the students and what they’re doing—I haven’t heard of in any concentration.”The English Department has taken a similar approach to advising. According to Director of Undergraduate Studies Daniel G. Donoghue, the concentration changed their advising system this past year from an “open door policy” of walk-in office hours to one more comparable to History and Literature.Each of the sophomore...