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While the Office for the Arts offers classes taught by professional artists, many Harvard students are left out by the limited class sizes and their own busy schedules. So last year, Nancy Selvage, Director of the Ceramics Program of the Office for the Arts, launched Clay All Night to meet student demand for more opportunities to experiment with pottery. Selvage promised—and delivered—a truly fun evening filled with food, music and a lot of clay. This year, Clay All Night was the place to be for those seeking an alternative to, or an escape from...
Seminars are often rigorous, introducing students to advanced material equivalent to the subject matter taught in higher-level departmental courses. They should therefore rightfully be counted for credit...
...custom evaporated as they began living under Muslim rule. By the 11th century the great biblical scholar Rashi, citing earlier authorities, described Ishmael as a "thief" whom "everybody hates," an insult that can still be found in his prominently placed commentary in many Torah editions today and that is taught inmany Orthodox religious schools. IbnKathir, a 13th century Koranic commentator, struck back by claiming the Jews had "dishonestly and slanderously" introduced Isaac into the Torah story: "They forced this understanding because Isaac is their father, while Ishmael is the father ofthe Arabs." That sentiment too survives today on the Muslim...
...work led him to collaborations with Buckminster Fuller ’19 and M.C. Escher, and for over 30 years he taught in Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies...
...system. Professors often have difficulty in finding TFs at the last moment and those that are found are often unprepared and overworked. But the quality of section leaders can be improved in many other ways, and we are willing to suffer through slightly worse sections if that means being taught by more vibrant and engaging faculty. After all, it is Harvard’s great professors that drew us here to study...