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...Quad Library, formerly Hilles Library, hosted an open house yesterday for students to learn about the library??s new features and to discuss their thoughts on its renovation with Harvard librarians and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71. Gross briefly addressed the students, thanking the librarians for their work with the renovation and expressing his vision of Hilles as a place where students will eventually have both study space and student activity space. “We have all kinds of grand plans for this building,” he told...
...business sense–when his work is criticized, supporters of gay writing as an institution tend to rally to his aid. When Section 28, a British law (now repealed) forbidding promotion of homosexuality by public authorities, threatened to bar his debut novel “The Swimming Pool Library?? (1988) from libraries, its sales only grew. Similar counterattacks followed a review by John Updike ‘54 of Hollinghurst’s “The Spell” (1999), in which (according to Hollinghurst) Updike implied “some nonsense” linking...
Just string a “Lamont Student Center” banner between Pusey Library and Loeb House, and undergrads will descend. I know that Lamont Library??er, Student Center—is the first place I’d go on, say, a Friday evening when I want to chill before I go out on the town...
...daughter of the 35th president, presented the second annual John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards to 39-year-old Lisa Madigan, Illinois’ top law enforcement officer, and 39-year-old Kica Matos, executive director of JUNTA for Progressive Action, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library??s Stephen Smith Center in Boston. The New Frontier Awards, co-sponsored by the Kennedy Library Foundation and Harvard’s Institute of Politics, are given to two individuals under 40, one holding elected office and one working full-time in community service and activism. Recipients...
...Beauty” deserves more than the niche-market label of “gay fiction.” Sadly, Hollinghurst’s novels to date remain largely unknown to American readers because of glib classifications that put his works such as “The Swimming-Pool Library?? and “The Folding Star” on the “special interest” shelf of gay and lesbian lit. True, all his novels feature gay sexuality and romance. And squeamish readers, beware: “The Line” is peppered with vivid...