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"The Monet of the Mountaintop"
Peter C. Liman, M.A.T. ’63, spent his business career as a marketing executive in toiletries and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals—first with Clairol, then Old Spice, Brut (when he hung out with athlete endorsers Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath), Aqua Velva, …
Issue: March-April 2007
N. Gregory Mankiw
Photograph by Stu Rosner N. Gregory Mankiw After two years as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Beren professor of economics Gregory Mankiw returned to Harvard in 2005 and took over the introductory economics course from the man who had …
Issue: March-April 2007
The Miller-Hunn Award Winners
This year, the newly renamed Miller-Hunn Awards—the original award, which recognized the work of Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now also honors recently retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71 (see “ Admissions, through the Ages ,” …
Issue: November-December 2019
The Harvard Corporation, Reformed
Robert D. Reischauer, Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, and President Drew Faust today provided a brief briefing on that governing board’s operations and activities—one of the periodic updates to the community begun when significant reforms of …
Katherine O’Dair to Replace Stephen Lassonde as Dean of Students
Katherine O’Dair , a former administrator at Boston College and MIT, has been named dean of students effective August 15, College dean Rakesh Khurana announced in an email today. She will succeed former dean of student life Stephen Lassonde, who stepped …
Babar Comes to Houghton Library
Published in 1935 , ABC de Babar— the focus of a current exhibit at Harvard—was the fourth book in French illustrator Jean de Brunhoff’s series about a little elephant in a green three-piece suit. The children’s books (the first appeared in 1931) had …
Little Boat, Unsalvaged
Thwarts, chines, ribs mud-caked, this one's deadrise bow is lifted as if by gusts, whitecaps' scud and swat no fear with her. Would she plane, or plow? Give a good ass-bumping if we'd go out today? Someone left his dream-sized hull to salt's pimples, …
Issue: September-October 2004
An Overview of Long-term-care Insurance
What follows is a summary of information about long-term-care insurance (frequently abbreviated as LTCi). For an inexpensive brochure on buying LTCi, call the National Council on Aging at 800-373-4906. For details on rating LTCi providers' financial …
Issue: July-August 2004
A London Fellowship for Urban Design
This past Tuesday , a crowd gathered at Wimbledon House, the home that esteemed British architect Richard Rogers built for his parents in Wimbledon, London, to celebrate the inauguration of the Richard Rogers Fellowship in partnership with Harvard’s …
Harvard Corporation to Drop Law School Shield Linked to Slavery
The Harvard Corporation has agreed to abandon the controversial Harvard Law School (HLS) shield, per the recommendation of a committee of HLS faculty, students, and alumni released early this month. “[T]he Corporation agrees with your judgment and the …
A Modest Proposal
Harvard is so decentralized that members of the community may not know what they are all accomplishing individually—or might, together. The University, for instance, maintains that “Broad efforts to raise funds for energy and environment research across …
Issue: January-February 2016
Neighbors on Edge
Residents bordering Harvard have turned building projects into political battlegrounds. Below, a Harvard rejoinder. More than five years of discussions and negotiations between Harvard and neighbors about the University's proposed Center for Government …
Issue: September-October 2002
Blindspot: A Novel
Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky, friends since graduate school, didn’t plan to write a book. Their project, set in 1760s Boston, was supposed to be a sketch, a playful spoof of two genres: the picaresque, with its rogue hero exposing the hypocrisy around …
Issue: November-December 2008
Bumps in the Road
For the fourth time in the 15-year reign of head coach Tim Murphy, the football team entered the Ivy League lists as defending champions. The 2007 squad—like those of 1997, 2001, and 2004—had gone unbeaten in Ivy play, finishing with a 37-6 demolition of …
Issue: November-December 2008
Conservative Curation
Amid the triumphant fanfare of the Harvard Tercentenary celebrations, Radcliffe College’s 1936 exhibit on “Women in Science” was remarkably unassuming. The exhibit marked the first Harvard centenary to celebrate women in university life. Tucked into a …
Issue: January-February 2021