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Overhauling the Endowment
When Harvard Management Company (HMC) president and CEO Stephen Blyth reported on endowment investment returns last fall, he bluntly described declining performance; laid out a new mission statement and investment goals; detailed a new asset-allocation …
Issue: January-February 2016
Realities of Empire
Empires fascinate. Not only scholars, but writers of fiction, geographers, sociologists, videogame and movie producers. We historians ask why and how they are they formed: by conquest, surely, though sometimes by marriage or alliances. How are they …
Issue: May-June 2022
Megan Marshall ’77 Wins Pulitzer for Biography
Megan Marshall ’77, RI ’07, has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for biography for Margaret Fuller: A New American Life , an account of the nineteenth-century Cambridge-born author, journalist, critic, and pioneering advocate of women’s rights who died with …
Life After Brain Injury
Carolyn Gold’s memoir chronicling her long, slow recovery from a brain injury caused by West Nile encephalitis begins with a mosquito bite that she does not remember. It most likely happened sometime in August 2017, while Gold, M.Ed. ’85, was on vacation …
Music and Language, Reconciled
Readers of the New York Review of Books who are also lovers of music—and who have reached a certain age—will know that music-lovers in the past have been able to read the writings of some musical titans who also were superb prose stylists. I think in …
Issue: March-April 2022
Harvard Students Protest Supreme Court Ruling
Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative action in higher education admissions, Harvard Yard transformed into a rallying ground. Led by the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard, more than 100 students, alumni, and members of the …
Encounters at the Border
The first time photographer Morgan Smith ’60 crossed into Mexico with his camera was during a Thanksgiving trip to see his sister-in-law in Tucson in 2011. Bored and restless during the long holiday, he decided to drive to Nogales, just over the border, …
Save the Date: President Gay Installation
P resident-elect Claudine Gay, who assumes office July 1 , will be formally installed on Friday, September 29, the Office of the University Marshal announced today . No further details are available yet, but in this digital age, the posting of the news …
Texts and speeches referenced in "At Odds"
The dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, announced that she will leave that post on June 30, after just three years of service, to return to teaching and research. March 16, 2005 At its regularly scheduled meeting on …
Board of Overseers Campaign Hotly Contested
As voting in this year’s election for members of the Board of Overseers concludes—the deadline is August 18 at 5:00 p.m.—the campaign has become unusually heated. As reported, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) committee’s annual slate of nominees is …
Medical Pioneer Mary Ellen Avery Has Died
Mary Ellen Avery, S.D. ’05, Rotch professor of pediatrics emerita, an innovative medical researcher and role model who “shattered each glass ceiling she encountered,” according to the Boston Globe , died on December 4 at the age of 84. In 1974, she …
Harvard Arts and Sciences Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate studies. It is the highest honor …
Issue: July-August 2021
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
Jaju’s Premiere Pierogies
Tough. Doughy. Bland. A stingy stuffing-to-starch ratio. Premier pierogies—Polish dumplings—must leap all these culinary hurdles to become the ultimate comfort food. “We have family recipes,” answers Vanessa White, part of the sister-duo who own Jaju …
Issue: July-August 2021
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, …