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...perhaps on account of the long history of honorary degrees at Harvard, there is no real agreement on the first recipient of a special award. Intellectual historians point to Nathaniel Appleton, a Cambridge minister who received the S.T.D. in 1771, as the first undisputed honorary doctor. They eliminate seventeenth-century tutors William Brattle and John Leverett, for they were required to prepare a "Theological" dissertation; President Mather received his award to enhance his position atop the Harvard hierarchy...
...second term would undertake a close examination of the stylistic metamorphoses of Western painting as reflected by a small number of works of the greatest masters from Giotto to the decline of the Baroque at the end of the seventeenth century. Here, the ways of looking at a painting as discussed in the first term would give depth to a historical study of art styles. The student at last would have a chance to emerge with a deep familiarity with a significant era in art history. What is far more important, the course will have made a thorough attempt...
...Classic French Theater," the only undergraduate-level French course, will cover comic and tragic genres of the seventeenth century. Paul Benichou, visiting lecturer from the Lycee Condorcet in Paris and professor of French Literature, will lecture...
...Seventeenth Century Firemen...
...Seventeenth century students were not satisfied with setting fires but soon took to fighting them. They organized a volunteer fire department and raced through town on joy rides whether or not there was a fire and whether or not the townsfolk wanted them to extinguish it. The students were justified in their stimulation, though: restrictions that held them in the Yard were lifted whenever the word "Fire!" was heard. One historian claims that the young men also looked forward after fire-fighting to relieving their parched throats with firewater at the local...