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Harvard Book Store will open a second location, this one at the Pru The move comes several months after Red Sox and Globe owner John Henry invested in the nearly-century-old bookstore.
For 90 years, a book about the soul after death was bound in human skin. Now, Harvard has removed the binding and apologized for its handling of the book.
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Harvard Library announced that it has removed human skin that was used to bind a book from the 1880s. The copy of Arsène Houssaye’s "Des destinées de l’âme" was found in the Houghton ...
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After nearly a century, Harvard's Houghton Library is removing the binding of a book made from the skin of a French psychiatric patient.
The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections.
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Harvard University has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th-century text because it was taken without consent from a deceased woman.
At first, when a pallet of boxes showed up at the Harvard Book Store’s Needham warehouse earlier this month, nothing seemed fishy about it. The store, which was prepping for its semiannual ...