Harvard regrets the possession of a French book bound in human skin. The American university removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye's book Des destines de l'âme kept by the Houghton library for almost a century.
The university, founded in 1636 in Cambridge, a suburb of Boston (Massachusetts, northeast), deplored that these “practices do not conform to the ethical standards that it has set for itself”