New Harvard course looks at history of the Quad – Harvard Gazette
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 4, 2022
Cabot House, for instance, where part of the course is based, has more grand pianos per capita than any other House at Harvard. Hannah Thurlby ’23 is studying why there are so many and where they came from. The trail quickly led to reflections on ties between femininity and shifting values, with her research showing that a proper Radcliffe woman in 1879, the time of the School’s founding, was expected to have musical abilities.
The overarching goal of the class is to understand that everything has history and that by living in the space where that . . .
