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...Currier is the only house without a library or a reading room, even though “the Harvard literature states that every house has one.” The Currier House website lists the Bingham lower main room and rooms located on the first floors of Tuchman and Gilbert as reading rooms. But current Currier House Committee Co-Chair Techrosette Leng ’07 said that the Tuchman room is visited rarely, while the Gilbert and Bingham rooms are used more often for TV-watching and meetings—not for quiet reading. According to Leng, Currier residents...
...essay collection, “What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today’s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty,” which was edited by John Brockman. The panelists, who all contributed essays to the book, featured Harvard psychology professors, Daniel Gilbert, Mark D. Hauser, and Elizabeth Spelke, as well as a Tufts philosophy professor, Daniel C. Dennett, and an MIT engineering professor, Seth Lloyd. Spelke said she believes human beings are alike, but that she also believes they are predisposed to believe they are fundamentally different. She said, though, that she remained convinced...
Even if you didn’t, you would certainly enjoy the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players’ production of “The Yeomen of the Guard...
Produced by Margaret D. Maloney ’06 and Charlie I. Miller ’08, directed by Roxanna K. Myrhum ’05, and with musical direction by Emily Senturia, the operetta is a delightful update of one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s best. It is not so much that they are faithful to the nearly 120-year-old material, as it is that they retain the spirit of the original writing and music without making it too stiff or old-fashioned...
There’s another significant element of the operetta: it’s not really a happy ending. As the story isn’t known to everyone, I won’t reveal its conclusion, but suffice it to say that Gilbert and Sullivan were obviously trying to aim higher than your standard crowd-pleaser. Keeping in that tradition of classically British humor, the performers do a great job of allowing us to laugh in the face of other people’s misfortune; only the most sensitive of viewers would consider this production a tragedy...