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“What Happened to the Dream?”
Rolling back abortion rights, ending affirmative action, and threatening democratic processes: sometimes, says former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84 , she feels like “forward progress in the world has stopped yet again.” On Wednesday …
Football: Harvard 31-Dartmouth 27
On a weekend during which we turned the clock back, the Dartmouth football team desperately attempted to turn it back exactly five years, to November 2, 2019. At Harvard Stadium on that benighted Saturday, the Big Green successfully employed a Hail Mary …
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2012-2013 Fellows
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced the 51 fellows who will be in residence during part or all of the next academic year. Among them are these Harvard faculty members and their projected work during their fellowships: I. Glenn Cohen, …
Goldie Named Director of Harvard Institute for Global Health
Sue J. Goldie , Lee professor of public health and director of the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), is the new faculty director of the Harvard Institute for Global Health (HIGH), President Drew Faust …
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Base of the Pyramid Thank you for the important article about impact investing ( “Business for the Other Billions,” September-October, page 31), which offers perhaps the best hope for alleviating poverty, and should appeal to anyone at any point along the …
Issue: November-December 2015
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Harvard and Liberal Arts I am responding to Brian Rosenberg’s “Is Harvard Complacent?” (September-October, page 47). I appreciate his perspective, but I do not share it, at least with regard to Harvard College. He addresses whether studying English, for …
Issue: November-December 2021
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
Derek C. Bok , Harvard’s president from 1971 to 1991 and again on an interim basis during the 2006-2007 academic year, faced the challenge of helping the University recover from the shattering Vietnam-era crisis that divided the campus and threatened the …
Issue: March-April 2024
Harvard Medical School Advances Research with $200-Million Gift
Harvard Medical School (HMS) will make major investments in imaging capabilities for structural biology, single-cell sequencing, and drug screening—all underpinnings for basic and clinically applicable research—with the support of a $200-million gift, the …
Curricle, the Course Catalog Matrix
Harvard’s course offerings used to take the form of thick paper catalogs, filled with numbers and descriptions of the thousands of classes available in the curriculum each semester. In 1990, the University began offering its current online catalog …
Honoring Artemis
In an “Imitator’s Note” prefacing her new collection, After Callimachus: Poems, professor of English Stephanie Burt writes, “These pages reflect, interpret, adapt, respond to, and sometimes simply translate the poems, and parts of poems, that the ancient …
“Seeking Strange Flowers”
As tales of adventure go , his had it all: treacherous passages through snow-covered mountains; escapes from gun-wielding marauders; grand dinners alongside tribal princes; and religious rituals virtually unknown to the outside world. In 1924, Harvard …
Issue: September-October 2015
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
Making the Public Record Public
Generally, librarians are tasked with protecting books. But over the past decade, Harvard Law School (HLS) librarians have sent tens of thousands of books to the literary guillotine, severing their spines and running their pages through scanners. In …
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
“Once Upon a Time” in Translation
Most American kids have probably never heard of Tonke Dragt’s The Letter for the King —a fantasy tale of good and evil, feuding kingdoms, and a questing teenage squire named Tiuri—but for millions of Dutch readers the book is a childhood classic, akin to …
Issue: November-December 2015