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Forty years ago, John C. Adams ’69 was the first Harvard undergraduate to submit an original composition as his senior thesis. The music concentrator then went on to become one of the most renowned American composers of the twentieth century...
...hour-long documentary, which focuses on the epidemic in twentieth century and the state of tuberculosis in the modern world, played to an audience of the about 50 people...
...Rauh Pulitzer has recently announced a donation of $200 million worth of art and an additional $45 million—historically, the Harvard Arts Museum’s largest ever donation. The $45 million will go towards the costs of renovating the Fogg Art Museum while the art, mostly twentieth century, will give Harvard’s curator another 31 pieces to display once the renovations are done...
...donation includes works by some of the most important names of twentieth century, including sculptures by Brâncusi and a painting by Picasso. According to Helen Molesworth, Head of the Harvard Art Museum’s Modern and Contemporary Art Department, “It adds to the strengths that we have in cubist painting [and will] make them deeper and richer...
...schools like Choate and Groton—which maintains even today an effective classical language requirement—ensured its graduates had substantial exposure to both languages. Harvard even retained its admission requirement of three years of Latin, or two of Greek, well into the second half of the twentieth century.In 2007, fewer than 40 students counted the Classics as their concentration, and expectedly only a slim number of those outside the department included any study of Greek and Latin among their coursework. This dearth of classical learning at the nation’s most prestigious university is no doubt...