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Core Banquet Photos

May 3, 2013 at 5:10 pm

The Core Banquet last night was a great success, marked by many touching speeches, award presentations, and hilarious toasts. Wonderful photos from the event can be found on our Facebook, and here: bit.ly/11HNfJn

By mdimov | Also posted in Activities, Announcements, Curriculum, Events, Great Photograph | Tagged annual, Award, Core Banquet, Eckel, end, fun, gathering, goodbye, Nelson, semester, speech, Summer, toast | Comments (0)

The Core Journal Staff: Crunching Time

May 3, 2013 at 4:56 pm

In the final days before the Core Journal’s release, organized chaos took over the Core Curriculum’s office. Here are photos capturing our intellectual panic:

By mdimov | Also posted in Academics, Activities, Core Journal | Tagged Core Journal, crunch, editor, editorial, journal, office, release, stress, work | Comments (0)

Explaining Nietzsche and Existentialism to 5-Year-Olds

May 3, 2013 at 4:25 pm

Relating to CC202’s study of Friedrich Nietzsche is an excellent and amusing attempt to explain his existentialism to a group of 5-year-olds. Here is the video: For more information, visit bit.ly/108bPAL.

By mdimov | Also posted in Academics, Activities, Core Authors, Great Ideas, Great Questions | Tagged children, Existence, existentialism, Friedrich Nietzsche, fun, kids, Nietzsche, philosophy, questions | Comments (0)

Alexander Graham Bell’s 1885 Voice Recordings

May 3, 2013 at 4:06 pm

An intriguing find is a recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice at the Volta Laboratory, in 1885 – some of the oldest recorded words ever heard: Bell, who also happened to teach at Boston University, closes with the phrase: “In witness whereof — hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell.” For more information, visit bit.ly/15ae9zL.

By mdimov | Also posted in Art, Great Personalities | Tagged Alexander Graham Bell, antique, discovery, find, old, recording, telephone, voice, Volta | Comments (0)

A Review of Christian Wiman’s Spiritual Autobiography

April 30, 2013 at 12:59 pm

In his review of Christian Wiman’s spiritual autobiography, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, Jay Parini discusses Wiman’s emphasis on the importance of faith to a critic. Here is an extract: It strikes me that criticism—systemic reflection on texts, even on life itself—has lost its urgency during the past 30 years or more, […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Academics, Art, Great Questions | Tagged autobiography, belief, Christian Wiman, criticism, divine, faight, interpretation, Jay Parini, literature, review, specific, spiritual, vague, words | Comments (0)

Salvador Dali: Dante’s Paradiso

April 30, 2013 at 11:49 am

Relating to CC102′s study of Dante’s Divine Comedy are illustrations made by Salvador Dali for Paradiso. Here is a sample: For the full set of images, visit bit.ly/16iqVvI. To view Dali’s illustrations for Inferno, visit bit.ly/10jHp1E, and for Purgatorio, visit bit.ly/17H3fQT.

By mdimov | Also posted in Academics, Art, Core Authors, Curriculum, Great Ideas, Great Personalities | Tagged dante, Dante Alighieri, drawing, illustration, painting, Paradiso, picture, Salvador Dali, The Divine Comedy | Comments (0)

Core Banquet: Invitations!

April 24, 2013 at 9:32 am

To all Core scholars: You are invited to next week’s Core Banquet; we’re very much looking forward to the occasion. We would like to invite you to submit your shout-outs and photos, so that they can be inserted into the slide show that will be playing throughout the evening. Any photos (of Core friends, classes, […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Activities, Announcements, Art, Core in the City, Core Lecturers, Events, Friday Fun, Great Ideas | Tagged banquet, Core Banquet, drink, end, food, fun, gathering, memories, music, pictures, semester, together | Comments (0)

Criticism of ‘Jane Austen, Game Theorist’

April 24, 2013 at 9:22 am

Relating to CC202’s study of Jane Austen’s work is an article from Slate, in which Adelle Waldman gives her amusing criticism of a recent book that discusses Austen’s insight into human behavior. Here is an extract: Austen, it seems, has something to tell us. And not only us English majors. Mathematicians. Game theorists. Serious thinkers. Even […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Academics, Core Authors, Curriculum, Great Questions | Tagged book, critic, criticism, Emma, Enlightenment, insight, Jane Austen, message, movie, question, Theory | Comments (0)

An Oddly Modern Antiquarian Bookshop

April 23, 2013 at 1:29 pm

In an intriguing article for the New York Times, Jody Rosen discusses a fascinating but little-known bookstore called Monkey’s Paw, and gives ideas on how such businesses fit into today’s literary world. Here is an extract: “Life-Spark Stories for the Intelligent Young.” Attributed to the author “R. K.,” it tells the story of a “bright […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Art, Future of the Book, Great Ideas | Tagged age, antique, antiquity, balance, book, bookstore, future, literature, new, odd, rare, technology | Comments (0)

Annual Poetry Reading: Poetry’s Distant Voice

April 23, 2013 at 12:59 pm

The Core presents a “set of two poems, which are the same poem” as phrased by Zachary Bos, one of the respected speakers at the Annual Poetry Reading this year on April 16th. The theme of the reading was “Poetry’s Distant Voice”, and here is Zachary Bos’ contribution: From The Book of Hours I, 36 MacDiarmid, […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Academics, Activities, alumni, Art, Core in the City, Events, Great Questions | Tagged annual, Book of Hours, distant, God, poem, poetry, question, reading, speakers, theme, voice | Comments (0)

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