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“To Be True to Our Complicated History”
Midway through the list of names was when the crowd fell fully silent. Some 300 people, suddenly pinned in place, stood motionless in a half-circle around the outdoor podium where Janet Halley, Royall professor of law, was reading out the names of slaves …
Off the Shelf
Harvardiana. The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith, edited by Richard P.F. Holt (Cambridge, $34.99). Economists today may look down on Galbraith’s economics—but can any of them write as he did? Includes the classic exchange with Dean Henry …
Issue: September-October 2017
Mark Zuckerberg to Speak at Harvard Commencement
The University announced today that Mark Zuckerberg ’06, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, will be the featured guest speaker at the afternoon exercises during Harvard’s 366 th Commencement, Thursday, May 25, in Tercentenary Theatre, following President …
Rebelling and Expelling
By most standards, 2020 wasn’t a great year to graduate: as a pandemic worsened, seniors left professors and friends behind and dealt with a graduation ceremony held online. At least they got degrees. Shortly before the graduation of the class of 1823, 43 …
Issue: September-October 2020
Facebook’s Failures
In 2019, when Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz began asking Facebook for information about the inner workings of its complex recommendation system, which pushes personalized content into users’ feeds—and is central to the platform’s immense …
Closed Doors
Universities customarily are open places. There is security where required (dorms, labs, libraries and museums), but a visitor can get to most appointments without producing identification or passing through checkpoints. This porosity corresponds to the …
Issue: March-April 2020
Brevia
Park Plans Proceed Although the University’s plans for completing its first science building in Allston remain uncertain, it is proceeding with community amenities promised to the neighborhood as part of the long-term ambition to develop academic …
Issue: September-October 2009
Dirt Flies
Construction is proceeding rapidly at the commercial enterprise research campus in Allston , where a hotel and apartment and office/laboratory towers (above) will rise alongside a University conference center. South of the Stadium, on North Harvard …
Issue: May-June 2024
Parklands and Wastewater
Wandering the hilly paths of Boston Harbor ’s Deer Island, breathing in the ocean breeze and marveling at panoramic views, visitors would never know what exactly goes on beyond the security gates, or inside the giant steel eggs that dominate the southern …
Issue: May-June 2022
HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs
The honors, awarded at the Harvard Alumni Association’s winter meeting in February, celebrate both alumni and shared interest groups (SIGs) that have organized exceptional programs. Established in 2015 to “create a strong, connected, collaborative …
Issue: March-April 2018
Romare Bearden
On november 28, 1977, Calvin Tomkins’s biographical word-sketch of artist Romare Bearden appeared in The New Yorker . Prompted perhaps by his gallery, Bearden then decided to cast his own life as a sequence of collages. A 1979 exhibit displayed 28 works, …
Issue: January-February 2020
Sports Medicine Man
At around 14, Brant Berkstresser realized he wasn’t much of an athlete. “I grew up in a large high school,” he says, “and I was very small.” His goal was to graduate weighing more than 100 pounds. “I started my senior year at 98,” he says. “I graduated …
Issue: January-February 2020
Surpluses and Scholarship
A decade after the financial crisis overturned Harvard’s academic ambitions, the University has righted its financial ship, and then some: a $298 million surplus in the fiscal year ended last June 30, anchored by some $1.9 billion distributed from the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Pandemic in the Workplace
As U.S. states and economies worldwide take tentative steps toward reopening, a pertinent study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that workplace transmission of the coronavirus accounted for 48 percent of the initial outbreaks in …