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Marvin has been successful in creating the immeasurably close community of the Holden choruses due to his sincere interest in developing close relationships with his students. “He genuinely cares about the students in each of the three groups,” says Kristina R. Yee ’10, the Radcliffe Choral Society Historian. “I think that Jim is a very fatherly conductor figure...
What: Party with the Harvard Texas Club. Celebrate with customary line-dancing and two-stepping that will eventually culminate in some good ol' karaoke. Yee...
...science and technology, and China's cartographic tradition was long and rich. Ricci's map is thought to be the first Chinese representation of the world as a sphere. But the map is at its most detailed in its depiction of China itself, an indication, as Professor Cordell Yee of St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., says, that Ricci was able to draw on Chinese gazetteers and atlases for his work...
Seventeenth century Chinese, of course, would have grasped the aesthetics of the map quite differently from the way Occidentals do today. In China, "calligraphy is a visual art," says Yee. Combining European learning with Chinese artistic tradition, Ricci worked to make his map (and his mission) attractive to his Chinese hosts. Ricci, Yee says, "knew his stuff...
...Yee Li, a professor of Chinese literature, said that “[Harvard’s] Chinese program ranks among the best in the country because of his leadership.” Lijuan Feng, a teaching assistant and drill instructor in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations department, said that “we don’t know what our department will be [like]” following Feng’s departure...