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Faculty Meeting, Part 2
The meeting continued the faculty meeting of February 15, with open discussion of the University's administration. Speakers' prepared texts are provided here, or, where they spoke without a text or did not provide one, a summary account …
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 …
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
Brevia
Global Perspective At a time of war, shifting international alliances, and reassessment of the gains from "globalization" of the world economy, the Harvard Alumni Association's guest speaker on Commencement afternoon will be Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de …
Issue: May-June 2003
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
“A Moral Obligation”
“I tell people the first 60 years are the hardest,” jokes Charles Berlin ’58, Ph.D. ’63. He would know: Berlin has headed Harvard Library’s Judaica Division since September 1962, when he was a 26-year-old graduate student finishing a dissertation in …
Issue: September-October 2022
Uncharted Territory
Last winter, thinking about my impending graduation, I called my friend James Quillen ’22 to get his advice about applying to the Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship. On the weekend we decided to speak, I had a meeting here and a deadline there, but James …
Issue: July-August 2023
Universities in a Polarized Era
Speaking at the first Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of the new semester this afternoon, President Lawrence S. Bacow addressed the polarization of American politics—including the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and fierce criticism of the …
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
Off the Shelf
Why We Vote, by Owen M. Fiss, LL.B. ’64 (Oxford, $27.95). Yale’s Sterling Professor of Law emeritus argues that the commitment to democracy is embedded within the Constitution—and secured by citizens’ right to vote, have those votes counted equally, and …
Issue: May-June 2024
Presidents Xi and Faust Confer in China
President Drew Faust, visiting Beijing for a "Your Harvard" event and other University business, met on Monday night with People's Republic president Xi Jinping. The meeting, Faust's invitation to Xi to visit Harvard, and her planned address at Tsinghua …
Tony-Winning Twosome
In a surprisingly dominant showing, the Broadway musical ONCE took eight Tony Awards at the American Theatre Wing’s annual ceremony, held on June 10. John Tiffany, director of ONCE, received the Tony for Best Director of a Musical; he was a fellow at the …
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
The Glory of Antiques
For years, Robert I. Owens ’68 and his wife, Elizabeth, lived with their children in the grand 1837 Greek Revival row house with hardly anything in it. “The kids rode their tricycles across the open floor of the double living room,” he says with a smile. …
Issue: September-October 2005