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...gray spectrum, the man who dipped the American sublime into the inkpot of black-and-white photography and by that means made it new again. So persuasive were his methods that because of him we tend to think of the national parks the way we think of the Great Depression, as something we can barely conceive of in color. He almost made us believe that the whole of creation comes in the palette of a cinder block - and to be glad about it. (See 10 things you didn't know about national parks...
There would be no book of exactly the kind Adams had in mind. But nine years after his death, a good number of his color pictures were published for the first time in Ansel Adams in Color, in a selection chosen by another great photographer, Harry Callahan. This year the book is being reissued with 20 additional pictures that have never been published before. (See pictures from Ansel Adams in Color...
Allowing student groups to perform at the pep rally in place of a big name performer is also a great way to showcase student talent. The Harvard focus of this more traditional format will help to foster more school spirit. CEB chair Kevin M. Mee ’10 has alluded to this: “I definitely think we would’ve moved in this direction, anyway, towards focusing back on the core focus of a pep rally, which was lost a little bit last year...
...lost by giving developing teachers more experience in the classroom. Education for the young is the bedrock of our society and economy, and if education schools can change their methods so that teachers can more effectively reach struggling children, they will be doing students and the country a great service...
...President Woodrow Wilson issued the first formal statement of national emergency the following year, on Feb. 5, 1917, in which he forbade American ship owners to sell their vessels to foreigners, arguing that they were needed to fight World War I. (See TIME's photo-essay "Landscapes of the Great...