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Great Trepidations
Beginning in late summer (I think , but can’t be sure about the dates--I deleted the e-mails from my in-box before deleting them from my trash, working as thoroughly as if they had been electronic vampires), and then with increasing desperation throughout …
Issue: May-June 2010
Two Harvard Students Named Marshall Scholars
The 2015 class of Marshall Scholars includes Michael George ’14 (’15), of Quincy House and Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, and Anna Hagen ’15, of Lowell House and Brooklyn. George, a government concentrator, plans to study comparative social policy at …
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
Marty Baron Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
Martin (“Marty”) Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013, will be the principal speaker at the afternoon exercises for Harvard’s 369th Commencement ceremonies, scheduled for May 28, in Tercentenary Theatre. At the Post , according to …
Getting Close to the Past
Clint Smith, who received a Ph.D. in education from Harvard in 2020, has written an important and timely book about race in America. But How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America is also a book about education: what we …
Issue: November-December 2021
The Pandemic’s “Perfect and Terrible Storm”
Many viruses are known to be seasonal, but as COVID-19 cases in late October reached a record high in the United States, even epidemiologists who have been warning for months that the pandemic will worsen with the approach of Northern hemisphere winter …
Tuning Pianos with Mariana Quinn
“In 1999, I was like, ‘I’m going to be a storm chaser,’” says Harvard’s lead piano technician Mariana Quinn, who oversees the maintenance of the University’s more than 200 pianos. Although her father was a piano technician and musician, she had no desire …
Issue: July-August 2022
Strokes of Genius
Traditionally, Harvard has not been known as a golf power. The school’s most significant figure in the sport (if you don’t count Bobby Jones ’24 , who didn’t tee it up for the Crimson) arguably is Edward S. Stimpson II ’27, two-time captain of the golf …
Issue: September-October 2016
Going Global, Gradually
The mid October announcement of Harvard Global Institute (HGI) and a “University-wide effort…to create a globalization strategy” elicited both a sense of promise and some puzzlement, perhaps in equal measure. The University news release observed that …
Finding Harlem
Vera Ingrid Grant , director of Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African-American Art , notes that the name “Harlem” evokes many different visions. Some people recall the landmarks central to the Harlem Renaissance, like the Apollo Theater …
Underpinning Public Service
The University today announced a $15-million gift, from Eric M. Mindich ’88 and Stacey Mindich, to support public-service-oriented experiential learning in undergraduate courses and a fellowship program for College students interested in public service. …
At Home with Harvard: Night at the Museum
This is the fourth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s new series, “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, and listen to while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about Harvard's Arnold Arboretum and spring …
The Man in the Top Hat
One of my favorite parts of Commencement is the tall man in the top hat. For many who attend Harvard’s graduation, the Commencement afternoon speaker is the main attraction. Audience members know that, if they brave the heat of the Cambridge spring and …
A Far Cry Nominated for Grammy Award
The debut album from Crier Records, the record label of the chamber orchestra A Far Cry ( profiled in our January/February issue ), has been nominated for a Grammy Award. Dreams and Prayers is the only member of its category, Best Chamber Music/Small …
Building a Better World
Buried beneath the ground at the highest point in Poughkeepsie, New York, sits a 36,000-square-foot concrete cistern built in 1923 to hold the city’s water supply. Replaced in 2017 after it sprang a leak, drained and fenced off from passersby, the cistern …
Issue: May-June 2023