GoldCoaster Issue: Vol. 2 No 2: Spring 2012

• Six Buildings that Shaped Harvard History

  Professors hanged in effigy; the Rebellion Elm; the Yard as armed camp; Victorian dreams of monumental splendor, social experiments tried and failed; presidents, Porcellians and “paths coincident” of iceberg and ocean liner . . .all of these are part of nearly four centuries of architecture at Harvard. Based on a popular Harvard Alumni Association walking tour given by PBS host and author Michael Weishan ’86, this film explores how six very special buildings at Harvard not only changed the course of University events, but helped to shape the world we live in today.

• Alumni Profile: John Jay Hughes ’48

  In this the third of the New Fireside Chats, Father John Jay Hughes, ’48 author of No Ordinary Fool, discusses spirituality, dogma, and his 60-year quest for faith. Ordained an Anglican minister, Father Hughes explains why he converted to Catholicism (at great personal cost – his father, also an Anglican minister, never spoke to him again) and narrates, with trademark wit and humor, the trials and rewards of a lifetime spent in the service of God.

• Spitting Image: The Case of Adams’ Missing Copley

  The Gardner Museum isn’t the only one with missing art: was Adams once home to its very own John Singleton Copley?

• The View from Apthorp

  Down Down-Under

• Letter from Cambridge

  Legacy

• Selected Letters from Our Readers

  Our cup runneth over this issue!