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Craig Lambert’s “Shadow Work”
Craig Lambert ’69, Ph.D. ’78, retired as Harvard Magazine’s deputy editor (a real job) late last year and promptly turned his energies to completing his second book (another real job). Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day (Counterpoint, …
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Social Club Sanctions Citing their history of gender discrimination and negative influence on campus life, the College announced in May that it would ban members of historically male final clubs and other unrecognized, single-gender social groups from …
John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova , Aidan Langston
Issue: July-August 2016
Bricks and Mortar
Much has been made of the University’s multimillion-dollar investments in online education. But this remains very much a physical campus, investing to renovate the undergraduate Houses, create new core facilities like the Harvard Art Museums, and grow …
Issue: March-April 2015
New Leader, New Look
The Harvard Club of Boston, established in 1908, has elected its first female president. Belmont resident Karen Van Winkle ’80, vice president of business development and marketing for Creative Office Pavilion, has been among those who helped launch and …
Issue: September-October 2016
Chapter and Verse
George Wittenberg seeks the source of the assertion, “Sub-specialization is a form of protective coloration.” “his error is himself” ( May-June ). Julian Kitay serendipitously came across the very quotation he wrote down in a lecture 67 years ago: “Why …
Issue: November-December 2015
“Service Starts with Summer”
During his inaugural address last October, President Lawrence S. Bacow advanced one specific, programmatic initiative. Invoking history, he said, “Since Harvard’s founding in 1636, the people educated here have responded patriotically to the call to …
Why Some Citizens Reject Science
For many americans, the wave of disinformation and defiance of medical authority that arrived with the coronavirus was their first face-to-face encounter with the high-stakes consequences of science denialism. Within months of the outbreak, the global …
Issue: September-October 2021
A Championship—and Seasons Cut Short
A fter College administrators informed students that they must move out of their dorms by 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, Harvard Athletics began to make its own cancellations—a necessary response, but a brutal blow to athletes, coaches, and staff. On …
Issue: May-June 2020
Harvard Portrait: Peter Suber
Peter Suber’s life bridges multiple places, passions, and positions. He has cycled across America, scooted around Sweden on a Vespa, and voyaged to Antarctica with a boatful of polar biologists who were conducting a penguin census. Now, he juggles a …
Issue: January-February 2015
Danish Realism, and the Reality of the Flesh
Two new exhibits at the Bruce Museum, in Greenwich, Connecticut, explore Danish paintings and scientific imaging that help unveil the truth of what we can see. At the core of “On the Edge of the World: Masterworks by Laurits Andersen Ring from SMK—the …
Issue: March-April 2020
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
THe names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association were announced on Commencement day. For detailed coverage of the Overseer candidates’ views, read their responses to Harvard Magazine ’s …
Allston Agonistes
As Boston’s new mayor, Michelle Wu ’07, J.D. ’12, pursues her administration’s policies, Harvard and a recently formed Allston citizen’s group have each sent her letters, outlining competing visions for the development of the University’s 127 acres of …
The Student Prince
As diners dig into jägerschnitzel and house-made bratwürst, dishes that have been on the menu of The Student Prince Café & The Fort Restaurant since it opened in 1935, general manager John Perry smiles and says, “everyone I see here is a regular. And now …
Issue: November-December 2021
Ballots, Please
This spring, alumni vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and for elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots should arrive in the mail by April 15 and must be received back in Cambridge by noon on June 2 to be counted. …
Issue: March-April 2006
Sharing the Wealth
Distributions from the endowment now make up the largest source of Harvard’s operating revenues: $855 million, or 31 percent of University income, in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005. So the Corporation’s annual decision on how much money to make …
Issue: March-April 2006