Some places I visited (e.g., Radcliff Yard, Christ Church) weren't worth
photographing.
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| Darwin's
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| The deli/cafe/market from which we bought picnic supplies.
| Darwin's deli counter. View the full-sized image to read the sandwich
menu.
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| Harvard and Cambridge
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| Picnic lunch, from roughly left to right:roasted veggie soup (stolen
from Dudley's cafeteria): decentsalad with potatoes (ditto): quite
goodpesto tortellini (from Darwin's): respectablefried cod
sandwich (from Darwin's): nicely done.For dessert: chocolate in the
shape of animals from Burdick Chocolate. I'd been carrying those around
for days.
| Gates enclose a pleasant courtyard by the John Winthrop House (an
undergraduate dorm).
| A difficult to identify church just south of Harvard.
| The Harvard Lampoon Castle. It's said to look like a face. I can see
it.
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| I took a break and browsed a bit at the Harvard Book Store, a quality,
independent bookstore with a good selection of titles, some popular,
some unusual, and most generally interesting.
| You must view the full-sized version of this picture to be able to spot
the reason I took it. Knowing I've listened to NPR programs broadcast
on weekend mornings may help.
If you want another hint, highlight the white-on-white text below:
Hint: look at the names painted on a third story window.
Further hint: remember Car Talk?
| Harvard has walls and gates. Some gates get closed at night. As there
are many gates and they are more ornamental than substantial, they're
not as defensive as Columbia's, but they at least reminded me of
Columbia.
The yellow building in this picture is Wadsworth House, built in 1726.
| The Statue of John Harvard, infamous because it's not actually of
John Harvard.
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| Statue of John Harvard plaque.
| Sever Hall's brickwork and intricate moldings glowed in the
mid-afternoon sun.
| The Sackler Museum. I didn't actually go in, but I think the museum
building looks cool.
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| Fogg Museum
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| Fogg Museum's entrance.
| The museum's interior courtyard. The eaves in the courtyard "create the
illusion of a roof and open-air court ... heightened by third-floor
casement windows."
| Intricately carved old limestone columns were displayed around the edge
of the courtyard. I photographed all of them.
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| An assortment of minerals used in Renaissance paintings.
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| The barely readable sign explaining all the minerals, their chemical
structures, uses, and methods of production.
| Muche's Picture 19. (Actually in the Busch-Reisinger Museum,
attached to the Fogg.)
| Gifford Leander's Tower in the Bosphorous.
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| More Harvard and Cambridge
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| Memorial Hall, viewed straight-on.
| Memorial Hall, with camera settings intended to emphasize the stained
glass.
| Memorial Hall, with camera settings intended to gather the dark feel of
the hall itself.
I like the first picture much better.
| An excellent shot of the stained glass windows at one end of
Memorial Hall.
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| I was actually hunting for a building mentioned in my guide book, the
Harvard-Yenching Institute, and its pair of Chinese lion statues, when I
got lost and discovered this building, the biology building, not
mentioned in my guide book. I like the design of the biology building
much more than the Harvard-Yenching Institute (which I eventually
found).
| The Harvard-Yenching Institute.
| Cambridge Swedenborg Chapel, sometimes called The
Cambridge Society of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian).
| Harvard has a farmers market!
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| The Tanner Rock Fountain, in front of the Science Center, sprays a mist
that gradually modulates in intensity. This picture was taken near its
peak.
| The stained glass windows in Annenberg Hall, attached to Memorial Hall,
as seen at night. Annenberg Hall is a dining hall! What a nice place
to eat.
Attempt 1.
| The stained glass windows in Annenberg Hall, attempt 2.
I'm not
sure which picture I prefer.
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