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...have a hard time getting into Science A-17, "The Astronomical Perspecive," since Professor Owen Gingerich said he would give preference to sophomores and freshmen in the class's lottery. But everyone can get into the groove of the music Gingerich and his sidekick, Lecturer in Astronomy David Latham, play before and after class...
...time in Harvard's 350-year history, students and shoppers alike were able to leave a lecture hall to the music of David Bowie. If listening to his "Space Oddity" was itself a Harvard oddity, hearing Pink Floyd the Friday afterwards was even more unexpected. "Gotta have some Floyd," Latham was heard saying as he inserted the compact disc...
...going to try and expose people to a wide range of music, so long as it has some astronomical connection," Latham said after class. "I'm also having fun justifying buying a couple...
...music is also incoporated into the lectures themselves. On Friday, Gingerich and Latham showed a real-time film of a total eclipse of the sun. After several moments of blackness, the sun began to peak out from behind the moon. Just as its light once again began to flicker, the opening guitar strains of The Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" filtered across the room. As the sun once again enveloped the screen, George Harrison began singing and the students began applauding for a job well-done...
Wyzanski was also an avid book collector, amassing what former clerk Stephen R. Latham '82 called "a house filled with wall-to-wall books." Associates praised Wyzanski's dedication to legal scholarship, noting that he wrote his own opinions--an increasingly uncommon practice...