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Better-than-Balanced Books
Faster revenue growth , plus expenses rising at almost the same rate, yielded an operating surplus of $43.6 million for Harvard’s fiscal year ended June 30, up slightly from the $36.8 million surplus reported for 2004. In reviewing the latter results a …
Issue: November-December 2005
Classifieds FAQs
Do you have any advertising tips? What categories do you offer? How much does a classified ad cost? What are your deadlines? How do I get started? How do I know if my ad is working? I am ready to place my ad. What do I do now? What if I want to place an …
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
“One of my small, goofy, weird joys is to get a very, very local newspaper from a small town, like my hometown, and read the police blotter,” says best-selling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You , Celeste Ng ’02. “ Mr. …
Issue: November-December 2022
Alice Hamilton
When Alice Hamilton arrived at Harvard in 1919, the University had never admitted a woman to the faculty. Not everyone was happy she was there. Her male colleagues congratulated her with gritted smiles and asked her to confirm that she would not use the …
Issue: May-June 2025
Honoring a Life with Birds
Growing up in Cambridge and wandering the wilds of Fresh Pond in the late 1800s, William Brewster scanned the trees and shoreline for signs of fluttering wings, listening for even the faintest peeps, tweets, and coos of avifauna. “It’s a phenomenon among …
Issue: July-August 2022
Football: Harvard 35-Holy Cross 34
We elderly Harvard football fans would like to give our most heartfelt thanks to Dan Curran. We mean heartfelt literally. With his team having just scored a touchdown on the final play of regulation to pull within a point, the Crusaders’ head coach …
Locked In
The lingering symbols of this past spring semester are surely the laminated signs, zip-tied to locked iron gates, starkly stating, “Harvard Yard Closed” and directing those with University IDs to use the Widener, Meyer, or Lamont gates, where security …
Issue: July-August 2024
Artful Campus
Visitors to Harvard Business School (HBS) know its corridors are enriched with a significant, thought-provoking, collection of contemporary art (see “Rethinking the Walls,” January-February 2013). Now the grounds are enlivened as well: not only with new …
Issue: November-December 2016
Aloian Memorial Scholars
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named Fariba Mahmud ’22, of Winthrop House, and Courtney Rabb ’22, of Eliot House, as the 2021 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars for thoughtful leadership and enriching the quality of life in their Houses. …
Issue: November-December 2021
The Climate Connection between Campus and Home
Often, when we think about the reach of the climate crisis on campus, we think about protests, discussions, and groups like Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, where I’m an organizer. But for a lot of us in the Harvard community, the climate crisis isn’t confined …
Issue: May-June 2023
Ban Ki-Moon HKS Class Day Speech
As prepared for delivery: Thank you for your warm introduction. Dr. Doug Elmendorf, dean of Harvard Kennedy School, distinguished professors of Harvard Kennedy School, dear Harvard Kennedy School Class of 2023, dear family members, friends, ladies and …
Big Guns Take Aim at Big Tobacco
Young teens in poor countries often buy cigarettes one at a time because they can’t afford a whole package. But that’s still enough to foster an addiction. South African physician and former cabinet minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma saw this as a major …
Best-selling Author Taps Honors Thesis on Meltdown
The summa cum laude thesis in economics written by A.K. Barnett-Hart ’09 was a useful source for Michael Lewis's just-published book The Big Short, on the Wall Street meltdown and ensuing recession, according to Peter Lattman's " Deal Journal , " a …
NSF Announces New Family-Friendly Policies
The White House and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have announced a new series of policies, the “NSF Career-Life Balance Initiative,” that aim to give researchers—particularly women—more flexibility in balancing parenthood with workplace demands, …
Listen Up
On a clear day last March movers hoisted the Steinway & Sons concert grand piano out of a second-story window at Groton’s Kalliroscope Gallery and swung it high into the air. The nine-foot-long, 1,000-pound instrument, wrapped and roped for the ride, …
Issue: September-October 2022