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Staging Memory
Odysseus does not want to remember the Trojan War. He does not want to remember the bloody battles, the cunning horse, or the ruthless sacking. But the memories keep creeping in. Should he head home, facing his past in its full truth, or remain adrift? …
Yesterday’s News
1930 The Harvard Engineering Society enjoys an illustrated address on the building and running of the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River from Manhattan to New Jersey: the two-year-old Holland Tunnel, named for its first chief engineer, Clifford …
Issue: March-April 2020
Chapter & Verse
Dale Higbee hopes to learn the source of a comment by Archibald MacLeish: “We know all the answers; it’s the questions we don’t know.” Alethea Black requests the title and author of a poem about how life would be if we grew younger over time. The last …
Issue: January-February 2006
Heather Henriksen
“This might be a little in the weeds , but trust me, it’s cool.” Heather Henriksen is warming up an impassioned (but definitely cool) oration about a University-wide push to get harmful chemicals—“flame retardants, antimicrobials, stain repellents, water …
Issue: January-February 2017
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
Not-So-Free Parking
It’s an all-too-familiar nightmare. After a smooth drive on a freeway, you pull into the city to run an errand, grab lunch, or drop your child off at school. But all the curb spots are taken, and the garage costs $25 an hour. So, you circle the block, …
Scholars’ Haven
Noel Twagiramungu won’t speak about the assassination attempt—the event that drove him from Rwanda remains under investigation. Two years later, he still has not returned to his native country. Instead, Twagiramungu has found a temporary home at …
Issue: May-June 2006
Bicoastal Poet, Beat Reporter
August Kleinzahler will be the poet, and Linda Greenhouse the orator, at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary (PBK) Exercises—the first formal community event of Commencement week, and in many respects the intellectual core of the festivities for College seniors …
Brevia
Nobel Honorands Furer professor of economics Oliver Hart shared the prize in economic sciences with MIT’s Bengt Holmström for their work on contract theory. Hart’s insight was on incomplete contracts: a contract cannot possibly predict every scenario that …
Issue: January-February 2017
Harvard Interim Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Task Force Reports
Interim president Alan M. Garber today announced the preliminary recommendations from the task forces on combatting antisemitism and anti-Muslim, -Arab, and -Palestinian bias he created in January . In a message to the community, he wrote about the task …
The (Truly) Great Outdoors
Most of us have spent more time than usual at home lately. With spring comes the chance to branch out—literally—by venturing outside, even if it’s only into your own garden or patio. Spring also brings a renewed real estate market. If you’re hoping to …
Issue: March-April 2021
A Robust Decade at the Business School
Kim B. Clark’s move from Allston to Idaho—he became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—concluded his nearly 10-year deanship at Harvard Business …
Issue: September-October 2005
Sexual Harassment and Assault Reports Increase in 2018
Disclosures of potential sexual and gender-based harassment increased by 55 percent from fiscal year 2017 to FY 2018, and formal complaints increased by 7 percent, according to the joint report of the University Title IX Office and Office for Dispute …
Samantha Power and Libya Policy
The New York Times reports that Samantha Power, J.D. '99—former executive director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy , and now at the National Security Council—has an important influence on President Barack Obama's policy …
Jordan Bliss Perry’s Latin (and English) Address
Multarum Artium Magistri ( Editor's note: The English translation follows the Latin text.) Praeses Bacove, decani honesti, professores sapientissimi; familiares, amici, et hospites; condiscipuli carissimi denique, ubicumque in mundo estis, SALVETE OMNES! …