February 22, 2001

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Hopkins hams it up for Hasty
Veteran actor shows he has an appetite for the absurd
The versatile character actor, whose screen roles have included Pablo Picasso, Richard Nixon, C.S. Lewis, Adolph Hitler, John Quincy Adams, Captain Bligh, and Yitzhak Rabin, proved himself a good sport, hamming it up with the producers of this year's Hasty Pudding theatrical, "Fangs for the Memories."

Diverse, dynamic life documented
The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America have acquired the papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896-1977). An influential artist and activist, Graham Du Bois was the second wife of the renowned African-American intellectual leader W.E.B. Du Bois.

King's College Chapel snares Harvard songbird Jesse Billett's low bass can be heard vibrating the pews of the Memorial Church every day at morning prayers. But starting next September that same voice will be ascending toward the beautiful fan vaulting of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, joined in harmony with what is commonly considered the finest choir in the world. Full story (Staff photo by Jon Chase)

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