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President Faust?
The Crimson went live at 11:57 p.m. on February 8 with a web report that Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be Harvard’s twenty-eighth president ( www.thecrimson.com ). A Board of Overseers meeting is being …
Speaking Volumes
A Houghton Library exhibition offers a selection of objects highlighting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Holdings at Yenching and Houghton Libraries (September 5-December 19). They include a Japanese scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s 1853 invasion of …
Issue: September-October 2023
Putting the Music in Musical Theater
Last spring, during the height of the pandemic’s catastrophic first wave in New York City—the streets empty, the air full of ambulance sirens—musical-theater composer Zoe Sarnak ’09 wrote a new song. Titled “Storm” and commissioned by the Guggenheim …
Issue: July-August 2021
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Infrastructure and Olympics I have long felt that a large, modern city cannot function efficiently without free public transportation (see “Why Can’t We Move?” by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, July-August, page 42). The key words here are “efficiently” and …
Issue: September-October 2015
Sherry Turkle, Mark Doty, to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
writer Mark Doty and social psychologist Sherry Turkle will speak at this year’s Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises, which will take place in Sanders Theatre on May 23. This is traditionally the opening event of Commencement week, and during it, the …
President Bacow’s Harvard Baccalaureate Remarks
Good afternoon, members of the Class of 2021, soon-to-be alumni of Harvard College. The role of the Harvard president in the Baccalaureate Service is to impart wisdom as you complete that last step in a long and sometimes difficult journey—the receipt of …
Mapping the Ganges
In the summer of 2005, Anthony Acciavatti, M.Arch. ’09, and his local driver were in rural, north-central India, not far from the sacred city of Varanasi. They had stopped to watch the “soupy, brown water” of the Ganges River gush out of the mammoth, …
Issue: January-February 2016
Chapter & Verse: Who wrote...?
“Unmeasur’d space is the Lord”s habitation” (March-April 2020). Gayle Sawtell identified the “hymn-like chorus” as a work by Beethoven, composed in 1802 as the fourth in a cycle of six lieder (Opus 48) setting works by the German poet Christian Gellert. …
Issue: September-October 2021
New Complaints Filed against “Baby Apps”
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), directed by Susan Linn, Ed.D. ’90, has filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission against mobile apps for babies marketed as educational by toymaker Fisher-Price and software developer Open …
Harvard Professor Scott Kominers on NFTs and Brands
In the fifteenth century, Gutenberg’s press revolutionized the process of distributing written text. Today, we have non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Like the printing press, NFTs have the ability to fundamentally change the spread of information. Yet, while …
Harvard College Admits 5.8 Percent of Applicants
Harvard College announced Thursday that offers of admission to the class of 2017 had been sent to 2,029 students, 5.8 percent of the applicant pool of 35,023. During the prior admissions cycle, 2,032 prospective freshmen were offered places in the class …
David M. Rubenstein to Join Harvard Corporation
The University announced today that David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, the private-equity and investment-management firm , will join the Harvard Corporation in July 2017. Although Rubenstein is an alumnus of Duke (where he …
“To Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind”
A joyous occasion was also a somber one today, as eight ROTC graduates were commissioned into the United States armed forces. The nation’s highest-ranking military officer and principal military adviser to the President, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of …
Presidential Priorities
President Lawrence H. Summers distributed a letter to the Harvard community setting forth key issues and priorities for the academic year... President Lawrence H. Summers distributed a letter to the Harvard community setting forth key issues and …
Douglas W. Elmendorf Appointed Harvard Kennedy School Dean
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Ph.D. ’89, who concluded his service as director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO—read his vita here) in March, has been named dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, effective in January. The time between the departure of …