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Want Freshmen to Bond? Take Them on a Hiking Trip
While backpacking through the New England wilderness, I am often fearful of taking a turn down a wrong path. Usually, I am not alone: 10 bright-eyed incoming first-year students and a fellow upperclassman follow close behind as I crane my neck to scout …
Events
THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, at the Loeb Drama Center from June 19 through July 11. For tickets and showtimes, call 617-547-8300 or visit www.amrep.org. The Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre …
Health Benefits to Cost 3.8 Percent More
After several years of significant increases in employee healthcare spending, Harvard’s overall healthcare costs will increase 3.8 percent in 2018 (down from last year’s 7 percent increase, and 7.3 percent the previous year). Employees’ monthly premiums …
Harvard Survey: Widespread Nonconsensual Sexual Contact
Harvard today released the results of a sexual conduct survey taken at the University during the spring of 2015, and the results—echoing those from the 26 other private and public AAU (Association of American Universities) institutions that …
Brevia
Law Leader’s Leavetaking Martha Minow , dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2009, announced in January that she would step down at the end of the academic year; she plans to return to teaching and scholarship, and to “more robust engagement with the …
Issue: March-April 2017
A Treasure Way Up High
The ceiling of Sanders Theatre soars so high, it makes you look up, says Raymond Traietti, assistant director of Memorial Hall. That’s when the grandest antique chandelier in all of Boston—a 1,040-pound, glowing dewdrop of nineteenth-century iron and …
Issue: January-February 2016
Self Improvement
The President and Fellows of Harvard College --the seven-member Corporation, the University’s senior governing board--has begun a review of its operations. As reported ( “The Corporation Changes,” March-April, page 52), the matters under examination …
Issue: May-June 2010
Sven Beckert Wins Bancroft Prize in History
Bell professor of history Sven Beckert has won a 2015 Bancroft Prize in history for his book Empire of Cotton: A Global History , the trustees of Columbia University announced this afternoon. His fellow winner is Greg Grandin, a professor at New York …
Developing a Diverse Faculty
“Harvard is at the beginning of a very long journey,” writes senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds in the first annual report issued by her office (published June 13; see the new “Faculty Affairs” website, …
Issue: September-October 2006
Harvard Reports on Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein Gifts
President Lawrence S. Bacow reported to the community this afternoon that the gifts to Harvard from Jeffrey Epstein were in line with those he disclosed last September : $9.1 million between 1998 and 2008, with no gifts received following Epstein’s …
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
Football Star Justice Shelton-Mosley to Transfer
Call him Commodore Shelton-Mosley. Taking advantage of major college football’s so-called “graduate-transfer rule,” Justice Shelton-Mosley ’19, who in three-plus seasons at Harvard became one of the school’s greatest kick returners and wide receivers, …
At Last, a Sweep
On Friday evening , an unusual sight greeted fans at Lavietes Pavilion: the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball national championship trophy was on display in the lobby, thanks to a promotion that is rotating the prize to one school in every conference in advance …
“Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion”
The Peabody Essex Museum’s newest exhibit opens with a white T-shirt—intended not for a jog in the park, but as a call to action. Bearing the silver-lettered message “we should all be feminists,” borrowed from Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s …
Issue: January-February 2021
College Admits 13.4 Percent of Early-Action Applicants
The College has admitted 13.4 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2023, down slightly from 14.5 percent admitted from the early-action pool last year. Of the 6,958 students who applied through the program, 935 were admitted. ( Last year , …