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...Harvard. The historical context of the events that occurred this spring traces back to the Buell Report issued in August 1993, where a Special Advisory Committee in Visual and Environmental Studies urged Knowles to strengthen the department and urged Harvard to affirm a commitment to making visual studies flourish at Harvard. Phelan was hired thereafter as Professor of Practice with the mandate to develop and direct a program in studio arts...
...Yale and California Institute of the Arts. Our larger concern, however, is whether The Crimson's one-sided story reflects a greater misunderstanding, and indeed devaluation, of the role of the serious practice of the visual arts within the University, and unique conditions required for the department to flourish...
Cabot’s Straus Cup wins began with former tutor Billy Weitzel ’90, who revitalized IM life at Cabot. Weitzel has since left, but the tradition he created continues to flourish. Intramurals are widely viewed as the center of Cabot House life, House members said...
...however, by transforming themselves into world-class cultural centers for a few days or for the whole summer, with events that range from lecture series to local-history celebrations and performing-arts extravaganzas. Some annual festivals, like the Williamstown Theatre Festival at Williams College, have become renowned, while others flourish as treasured local secrets. A few phone calls can transform the brick-and-mortar blur of a college tour into a cultural education for the whole family. A sampling...
...take the greatest extremes of warming to make life uncomfortable for large numbers of people. Even slightly higher temperatures in regions that are already drought- or flood-prone would exacerbate those conditions. In temperate zones, warmth and increased CO2 would make some crops flourish--at first. But beyond 3[degrees] of warming, says Bill Easterling, a professor of geography and agronomy at Penn State and a lead author of the IPCC report, "there would be a dramatic turning point. U.S. crop yields would start to decline rapidly." In the tropics, where crops are already at the limit of their temperature...