Slavic Professor Dies at 91

Horace Gray Lunt ’41, a revered linguist and philologist who served in the Slavic languages and literatures department for 40 years, died Aug. 11. He was 91.

Classicist Bernard Knox Passes Away

Celebrated classicist Bernard M.W. Knox once tossed his ten-year-old son a dog-eared translation of Thucydides, urging the boy to not miss the ancient author’s belief that his work was a “treasure for all time.”

POSTCARD: Living and Dying with Boston’s Neighborhood Newspapers

Community newspaper obituaries are the pinnacle of doom in modern society—the most doomed section of the most doomed newspapers in an industry that seems summarily doomed.

A former resident of Adams House in the class of 2010, Brien Battiste, a skilled guitarist and thirsty intellectual, died last Friday at the age of 22.

Friends Remember Brien Battiste as Passionate Intellectual

Brien Battiste—described as skilled guitarist, hungry intellectual, devoted friend, and even underground journalist—defies simple categorization.

'Love Story' Author Erich Segal Dies at 72

Erich W. Segal ’58, classics scholar and popular writer of works like “Love Story,” died Sunday from a heart attack at his home in London. Segal, who had been battling Parkinson’s disease for over 20 years, was 72.

John Kenneth Galbraith, Longtime Economics Professor, Dies at 97

Longtime Harvard professor John Kenneth Galbraith, a prominent liberal economist who was a popular instructor here for more than three

Galeota, Past Crimson Managing Ed., Dies at 50

Former Crimson Managing Editor William R. Galeota Jr. '70, a partner at the Shea and Gardner law firm, in Washington, D.C., drowned May 31 in a Delaware Bay boating accident. He was 50.