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Numbers Game
Although the College has developed the roster of courses for the reenvisioned General Education portion of undergraduates’ curriculum , debuting this coming fall semester, a final piece of the puzzle remains. Alongside three divisional distribution …
How to Create Your Springtime Oasis
Designers are seeing a trend: After two years at home during the pandemic, people want to transform living spaces into sanctuaries. Whether you’re in the mood for a complete overhaul or just impactful adjustments, local experts have ideas. Sam Kachmar of …
Issue: March-April 2022
An Intellectual Entente
“Stamp collectors” was the derisive term future Nobel laureate James Watson applied to Harvard biology professors involved in classification and anatomy in the 1950s. The co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix structure, then in his twenties, had little …
The Payout Payoff
Following two years of high investment returns on endowment assets, the Harvard Corporation has approved an increase in funds distributed to support University operations in fiscal year 2006, beginning July 1 -- but with a new twist. During the current …
Issue: March-April 2005
Victor Clay
On Victor Clay’ s twenty-first birthday, in 1984, came a knock at the door. “You want to be a deputy sheriff? Be downtown in two hours.” The Olympics were coming to Los Angeles, his future wife had taken a corporate job, and this was how Clay, who’d been …
Issue: September-October 2022
Straws in the Wind?
As the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) determines how Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will operate this fall —residentially, remotely, or some mixture—three very different …
Klarman Hall Breaks Ground
Under a dazzling spring sky, with just a hint of cirrus on the horizon—temperatures in the 70s, shadbushes and weeping cherries in full bloom, and leaves bursting to unfurl from every bush and tree on campus—Harvard Business School (HBS) this afternoon …
Wendy Lesser's "Threepenny Review"
Wendy Lesser ’73 is hesitant to say very much about the new book she’s been working on. “It’s a tiny little embryonic thing at the moment,” she demurs. But she’s clearly excited by the idea: a collection of essays about 15 now-dead writers who were her …
Issue: July-August 2022
Unprecedented
When people who are steeped in our institutional history hear the word “unprecedented,” they are understandably skeptical. There isn’t much that hasn’t happened at the University at one point or another over the past 383 years, and our Class of 2020 is …
Issue: July-August 2020
Downtown Oasis
On a Sunday afternoon , the airy lobby of the Mattatuck Museum in downtown Waterbury is alive with sound. The Connecticut Accordion Association Orchestra, back by popular demand, plunges into “Moonlight Serenade” as listeners nod along or enjoy a late …
Issue: November-December 2022
As Coronavirus Spreads, Harvard Cancels Athletics
After University administrators informed College students that they must move out of their dorms by 5 p.m. on Sunday, Harvard Athletics began to make its own cancellations—a prudent decision, but a brutal blow to athletes, coaches, and staff. On …
Committee Recommends a More Transparent Tenure Process
In 2020 , fifteen years after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) adopted the current form of its formal tenure procedures, FAS dean Claudine Gay announced a review of the pressure-filled process, which has sparked controversy in recent years. The …
History in Progress
September 11, 2001, split Richard Beck’s adolescence in two. Fourteen on the day of the attacks, he was old enough to remember life before—when anyone could walk up to an airport gate, when students learned in school that history was over. He came of age …
Issue: September-October 2024
From Punk to the Silver Screen
As an editor at Mademoiselle magazine in New York, Carter Burwell’s mother used to chase down writers like Truman Capote and Dylan Thomas to get their overdue pages. She loved going to jazz clubs and staying till closing time. When the musicians went …
Issue: January-February 2022
A Night at Gustazo
Since 2011, Gustazo Cuban Kitchen & Bar has grown from a homey storefront in Belmont, serving a handful of authentic specials, to two locations—in Cambridge and a new Moody Street, Waltham, site—that can seat more than 500 diners a night. Such leaps are …
Issue: March-April 2020