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...Feminist Portrait Project, co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Harvard Queer Students and Allies, features notable Harvard personalities including Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz and History and Literature lecturer Timothy P. McCarthy...
Metal arm bands are neatly arranged by a pipe bag underneath a looming five-foot portrait of its owner: Sitting Bull, the former Lakota Sioux holy war chief who famously led the Lakota and Cheyenne troops to victory in the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Nearby, old arrows are suspended in mid-air—as if shooting out from a propped bow—under an airbrushed banner depicting “thunderbirds,” mythological messengers of thunderstorms revered by Lakota members as spiritual sources for energy in battle...
...opening remarks at yesterday’s Faculty Meeting, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith was prepared to explain where President Lowell had been taken: the bust and its pedestal, like the portrait of President Eliot, had been sent for maintenance...
...Though portraits are animated only in the world of Harry Potter, this apparent disappearing act was the second of its kind this year. In September, the portrait of former University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, was missing—an absence pointedly observed by faculty meeting attendee and former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
...still have a portrait of President Lowell hanging,” Smith said. “We are very pleased to have him here and”—eliciting a wave of laughter from the meeting attendees—“look forward to having his bust back...