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Harvard University Faces Off With Student Protesters As MIT Clears Camps

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Harvard University again threatened suspensions for pro-Palestinian protesters if they don’t leave a campus encampment, escalating tensions in an impasse that’s left the school as one of the few elite colleges that hasn’t forcibly removed demonstrators. The Ivy League university has so far resisted calling in the police to clear the encampment, a move that…

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After mass arrests at Columbia University, pro-Palestinian protests sweep U.S. college campuses

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Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on April 22 as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas. More than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped…

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Human Skin Used To Bind 19th Century Book Removed By Harvard Library

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New York: Prestigious Harvard University said Wednesday it had removed human skin from the binding of a book held for over 90 years at one of its libraries. A copy of the 19th-century book “Des Destinées de l’Ame” — or Destinies of the Soul, a meditation on life after death — was found in 2014…

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