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Berryessa said that she was surprised to learn that 13 officers—or roughly 10 percent of HUPD, according to Katherine M. Obst ’12, another member of the club who went on the tour—were female, since she had not seen a female HUPD officer on campus before...
Musing on this lack of formal curricular opportunities for graphic designers, Computer Science concentrator Kane Hsieh ’12 said, “I wish departments would offer not classes, but rather, mini-seminars throughout the year, so that students can learn the skills without using up one of their few electives. Right now, I’m probably pretty inefficient when creating images, since I’m just using what I already know.” Christina Q. Guo ’13 echoes this sentiment, saying, “I’ve never heard about...
...regardless of their level of experience. “I’d never done graphic design before, but a few of my friends were doing it for other organizations, so when a CSA [Chinese Students Association] Public Relations board position opened up, I took the opportunity to finally learn graphic design,” Guo said. Later, when Guo was comping the Harvard College Law Society, her new graphic design skills were immediately put to use in creating some publicity posters. Publications like The Harvard Crimson similarly teach students to use design software they might not otherwise learn...
Aspiring designers at Harvard can also learn about graphic design through GSD student publications. For instance, “New Geographies,” a doctoral student journal distributed by Harvard University Press, has featured a different emerging graphic designer in each of its four issues of 2009. In this way, GSD doctoral students are able to highlight new talent in the field of graphic design and enjoy a fresh aesthetic for each issue...
While “Mrs. Adams in Winter” does not fully deliver on its promise of this nuanced portrait, it succeeds admirably in reconstructing the quotidian details—cultural, financial, geographical—of overland travel in the early-19th century. We learn of the staple food of travelers in Prussia, “beer soup,” a mixture of beer, egg yolks, wheat and sugar; of a road-tax imposed on greased wheels; and of nights spent in post-stations, a kind of 19th-century motel where one slept in a cubicle with waist...