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Curricular Conundrums
During the past decade, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has labored mightily and at length to construct a workable general-education component for undergraduates’ course of study. At present, Gen Ed comprises eight courses intended to lift young …
Issue: March-April 2016
Milman Parry
Milman Parry saw the Homeric epics through new eyes, heard them through new ears. The Iliad and the Odyssey , he said, were the work of generations of illiterate poets who composed orally; their poetry took wing in the moment, were reduced to print only …
Issue: September-October 2022
Ways to Support Your Well-Being in the New Year
The gifts are tucked away, the wine bottles have been corked, and you’re ready to start fresh for the new year — likely with some resolutions in mind. Whether your clean slate involves financial, emotional, or physical well-being, there are plenty of …
Issue: January-February 2020
Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gregory Kristof , of Scarsdale, New York, and Kirkland House, a philosophy concentrator, will be the Lionel De Jersey Harvard Scholar …
Issue: July-August 2015
Putting the “New” in House Renewal
When students vacate Winthrop House after Commencement 2016, they will make way for something new in the program of undergraduate residences: not just stem-to-stern renovation, but significant fresh construction, in the form of a five-story addition to …
Issue: May-June 2015
Harvard Discloses Leaders’ Annual Compensation
The University today released its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2016 (covering the tax year from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017— Harvard’s fiscal year 2017 ). The headline figure, in the accompanying data on the compensation paid …
Assessing Gender and Racial Equality Today
“I sometimes feel that I’m Alice in Wonderland,” said Margaret Marshall , M.Ed. ’69, former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, during an online panel discussion late last week about the progress—and retreat—of American gender and …
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Editor's Note The September-October issue attracted an unusually large volume of unusually long letters, on academic freedom and free speech, teaching reading, and the continuing campus reactions to the war in the Middle East. We regret the constraints …
Issue: November-December 2024
Harvard Reveals Healthcare Costs
In the wake of faculty members’ sharp objections to Harvard’s imposition of coinsurance and deductibles on nonunion employees’ health insurance , announced last September, President Drew Faust promised to provide data on the University’s healthcare …
Staging Memory
Odysseus does not want to remember the Trojan War. He does not want to remember the bloody battles, the cunning horse, or the ruthless sacking. But the memories keep creeping in. Should he head home, facing his past in its full truth, or remain adrift? …
Amy Poehler Named Woman of the Year
Parks and Recreation star and Boston-area native Amy Poehler will receive the Hasty Pudding Club’s 2015 Woman of the Year Award, honoring “a talented and hilarious actress whose brand of comedy fits so well with the Pudding’s own tradition of satire …
Back on Top
As so often happens, The Game came down to the end. This time for Harvard it was a bitter one. On a blustery day at Yale Bowl, the Crimson had come from behind to take an 18-17 fourth-quarter lead, then saw Yale go back ahead 23-18. Now Harvard had …
Issue: January-February 2024
A New Face of American Evangelicalism
Here's how Walter Kim, Ph.D. ’07, tells the short version of his parents’ migration. After the Korean War, his father escaped communist southern China by crossing the Taedong River hidden inside a barrel. He got to Seoul, where he met and married a young …
Issue: July-August 2023
Conquest of the Air
Orville Wright's historic first flight lasted just 12 seconds. The Wright Flyer traveled 120 feet, a skip across the sand at Kitty Hawk's Kill Devil Hills. The Wright brothers got their biplane in the air three more times on December 17, 1903, eventually …
Issue: May-June 2003
“Neither Comfort nor Cover”
In a February message to the University community, President Lawrence S. Bacow announced that Harvard had “failed” Terry Karl, now an emerita professor of government at Stanford, when it did not take seriously her complaints concerning sexual harassment …
Issue: May-June 2021