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Asteroid-Naming in the New Millennium
Acting out of "a sense of public duty," Ashok Nimgade '80, M.P.H. '98, M.D., of Boston, has forwarded for publication a copy of a letter he knows to have been sent by David Anthony Garcia '81 to Brian G. Marsden at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for …
New Members of Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of HAA
The newly elected members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced by the University on May 25, the morning of Commencement Day. Board of Overseers (for six-year terms): Sylvia Mathews …
Liquidity and Leverage
In one sense , the projected 30 percent decline in the value of the endowment is Harvard’s financial problem. If the invested assets earn the expected return over time, distributing funds from a $36.9-billion endowment at a typical rate (about 5 percent) …
Issue: July-August 2009
How the Enlightenment Led to Colonialism
It’s not immediately clear , as William Kentridge starts to play an excerpt from his 2005 animated film rendition of The Magic Flute , how the 1791 Mozart opera connects to the topic of his second Norton Lecture, “A Brief History of Colonial Revolts.” On …
Ways and Means: Harvard's Wage Debate
In partial response to the "living-wage" sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring and demands for a $10.25 hourly minimum wage for the University's lowest-paid employees, then president Neil L. Rudenstine appointed a Harvard Committee on Employment and …
Issue: November-December 2001
Seeking a Flag-Bearer!
For more than 100 years, the Harvard College graduate who had attended the most Harvard-Yale football games carried to The Game a small red silk pennant as a talisman of luck. The Little Red Flag was waved by nine men from 1884 through 2001. At that time …
Issue: March-April 2020
Cryptic Puzzle: “#2”
Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution "#2" solvers (The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically.) Itai Pines – Portland, OR Stephen Throop – Grover, NC Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY …
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
The State of the Pandemic
For all the havoc and death caused by the coronavirus during the past 20 months, enough time has passed to reflect on a few significant issues. How will humanity cope with the rest of this pandemic—and prepare to respond better to the inevitable next one? …
Issue: September-October 2021
Faculty Honored for Teaching and Advising
At the May 5 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting, dean Michael D. Smith announced the following annual recognitions for teaching, advising, and mentoring. Harvard College Professors Recipients of FAS’s highest honor for faculty members who make …
Making Space
There were two ways that Junko Yamamoto, M.Arch. ’17, could get to elementary school from her childhood home in Japan’s Gunma Prefecture: she could take a flat, paved path—what she calls “the civilized road”—or she could walk the long way through the …
Issue: March-April 2024
Honor Roll
We recognize four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2014, and happily confer on each a $1,000 honorarium. Adam Kirsch Contributing editor Adam Kirsch ’97—critic, essayist, poet—has long crafted beautifully …
Issue: January-February 2015
Matthew Potts Appointed Harvard Pusey Minister
M atthew Ichihashi Potts, professor of religious studies and literature, has been appointed Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer professor of Christian morals, effective July 1. He succeeds interim minister Stephanie Paulsell , following …
Harvard Endowment Rises to $36.4 Billion
Updated 9-24-14; see below. HIGHLIGHTS: The endowment's value stood at $36.4 billion as of June 30 (within a half-billion dollars of the peak value realized in fiscal year 2008, just before the financial crisis and ensuing recession), up $3.7 billion …
Civil War Reawakened
A new book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, by Adam Goodheart ’92, recently reviewed in Harvard Magazine, was also the subject of a searching, favorable review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Goodheart's volume, years in the making, explores …