Browse Exhibits (13 total)
The Opposite of Loneliness
An exhibit curated by Gabrielle Landry, celebrating the work of Marina Keegan.
Explore the tabs on the left to discover more about Marina Keegan's essay, "The Opposite of Loneliness."
Shih-Song Cheng's Acceptance Speech for the Order of the Rising Sun (Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon)
An english manuscript of Shih-Song Cheng's acceptance speech originally delivered in Chinese on April 29, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Explore the pages on the left for images of the manuscript, label for the speech, and a transcription.
Lecture notes and commentary compiled by Brianni Lee
This exhibit comprises lecture notes from three different classes at Harvard College: “Understanding Beethoven,” “Understanding Wagner’s Ring”, and “Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory.” This text was created by Brianni Lee, a student who have studied German and Philosophy from 2016 to 2020 at Harvard. The notes were initially created at Harvard for Brianni’s own purpose of studying for her classes. Each section will have lecture notes for each of the three courses with the addition of Brianni’s commentaries. The selection of the lecture notes that were included in the text were based on the complementary nature of the courses.
My Father's Paper: Clinical salmonellosis in guineapig colony caused by a new Salmonella serotype, Salmonella ochiogu
The text I hope to preserve, titled “Clinical salmonellosis in a guinea pig colony caused by a new Salmonella serotype, Salmonella ochiogu” is a 1983 scholarly journal article written by my father Chike Onyekaba. The paper was published in the journal of Laboratory Animals, was based on research conducted in the National Veterinary Research Institute in Vom, Nigeria. It discusses the isolation, identification and characterization of a new strain of Salmonella isolated from an outbreak among an experimental cohort of guinea pigs. This publication was instrumental in allowing my father to come to the United States for post graduate education in virology, and was also particularly important in inspiring me to pursue scientific research and a career in medical science. Additionally, this paper is a tribute to the namesake of the Salmonella serotype isolated, Ochiogu, who was my late grad-uncle who raised my father and provided him with the means to pursue an education. This legacy of…
Julianna Kim - The Nacirema
For the best reading experience, it is advised that the reader simply dive right in with only this bit of context–"Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" was originally published as an article within an anthropology journal. Don't read the rest of this preamble; just skip right ahead to the text. Then come back. I'll wait.
The text I have chosen is “Body Ritual among the Nacirema,” a journal article by Horace Mitchell Miner. The article first appeared in American Anthropologist, published in June 1956 as part of volume 58, pages 503-507. It was originally created as a satire on anthropological papers by defamiliarizing American culture, taking the reader through descriptions of the “latipso” temples of ceremonial purification (hospital backwards), rites of the “holy-mouth-men” (dentists), and exorcisms of demons in people’s heads by “listeners” (therapists). In 1972, Niel B. Thompson revisited the paper by creating a sort of sequel: a social commentary known as “The mysterious fall of the…
Selections (from To Arcadia)
Logan Zelk, a senior studying Philosophy at Yale University, is a prolific writer for an undergraduate, having written two books and submitted several poems for publication. This text is comprised of edited selections from his second book, To Arcadia, first published in May 2018 with funding from Yale’s University CPA Grant, though he has been given the freedom to add or redact material from the first edition as he pleases. To Arcadia is, in brief, a decadent medley of aphorisms, short stories, and poems, spanning a wide range of themes and subject matter, though inter-connected by the idea of death through the corruption of memory — what one could call “the death we live.” Logan printed 100 copies of To Arcadia and distributed them among family, friends, and, so he tells me, “charming strangers.” 80 magazine-size pages each, it is unlikely that the majority of the total 8,000 printed pages have been read. Moreover, the lack of page numbers makes the work difficult to reference.…
St. Paul's Catholic Church: Description by Fr. John Ryan
This booklet is a printed copy of an account of details of the building of St. Paul’s Catholic Church, currently located at the corner of Bow and Arrow Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The new church building opened on Easter Sunday in 1923. This description of the details of the building was written by Rev. John J. Ryan, the pastor of St. Paul’s at the time, and printed for the dedication of the new church on October 13, 1924. In the foreword, Fr. Ryan writes that this booklet was published for the “inquiring public” at the “expressed wish” of William Henry Cardinal O’Connell, the Archbishop of Boston. Fr. Ryan notes that “the assurance of a booklet, explanatory of everything to be seen in their church, was welcome with joyous satisfaction” by parishioners and visitors of St. Paul’s.The booklet contains descriptions of the architectural and artistic features of the church, including the exterior style and location, the bas-relief of the Ascension above the embellished altar, the…