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Touting Teaching
In a year of heightened University focus on learning and teaching , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is premiering “Harvard’s Great Teachers” (for which it has the address http://greatteachers.harvard.edu) a series of online videos featuring …
"Crossing Boundaries"
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust, founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will become Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on July 1. She was elected by the Corporation, Harvard’s senior governing board, with the consent of the Board of …
Issue: March-April 2007
Upending U.S. Politics
Among the many ways U.S. politics has been transformed in the past decade, the rise of nationwide citizens’ activist groups devoted to resisting a president—the Tea Party on the right, and Indivisible on the left—has been especially remarkable. These …
Issue: March-April 2020
Harvard Football Great Performances: Barry Wood ’32
OCTOBER 19, 1929: BARRY WOOD BEATS ARMY, 20-20 WHEN LAST WE SPOKE , following Harvard’s 50-43, double-overtime loss to Yale in November —a day which will live in infamy, to employ the phrase made immortal by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, A.B. 1904, LL.D. …
Open Book: Hiding in a Tick Mattress
In 2015, while she was working on The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility (Harvard, 2018), Erin I. Kelly, Ph.D. ’95, professor of philosophy at Tufts, interviewed Winfred Rembert at a Connecticut bookstore. His life obviously …
Issue: September-October 2021
The Goodness of Being Together
For many people, the most significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was the sheer weight of isolation: the abrupt absence of routine social interaction with fellow human beings, from relatives to work colleagues, classmates to cashiers. Being alone …
Issue: September-October 2024
Making Voters Care About Climate Change
One day about four years ago, John Marshall’s youngest son came home from a class on climate change at Harvard Extension School and told his father, “Dad, you have to do something about this.” The 17-year-old (now a junior at Harvard) had been learning …
Bruce Jenkins
As an undergraduate working for the New York University cinema studies department, Bruce Jenkins operated a technological device that has changed but little in the last century: the film projector. "I love it--it's the last vestige of the machine age in …
Winter Sports
Track and Field Sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19 has been breaking program records since she joined the Crimson in 2015. This winter, she made history, becoming the fastest collegiate woman to run the indoor 200-meter. Her 22.38 mark in the final heat of the …
Issue: May-June 2018
Advanced Standing Reduced
Following its December discussion of a proposal to eliminate Harvard College course credit for Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses—thereby limiting students’ ability to fast-track their A.B. or graduate with a simultaneous …
Issue: May-June 2018
Harvard Class of ’17 Yield Reaches 82 Percent
Of the 2,029 students offered admission to the Harvard College class of 2017 (a mere 5.8 percent of the 35,023-strong applicant pool), 82 percent have said yes, the College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid announced today. That “yield”—the highest …
The Language of Movement
I n the finale of the Netflix series Living with Yourself, Paul Rudd’s character gets into a fight with himself—or, rather, with a clone of himself. That new-and-improved version has spent the previous seven and a half episodes tormenting the original, a …
Issue: January-February 2020
Bringing Pride and Plans to Life
In Uganda , there is a hierarchy of houses. The poorest live in huts made of dung. Mud is a step up; brick with mud walls, one more. Next comes brick-and-mortar; stucco over the brick says someone has really made it. The roof makes a statement too: it can …
An Amazon Artist
Collectors have long been smitten with artists’ better-than-photographic renderings of charismatic fauna (Audubon’s birds, for instance) and flora. Among them, happily, was Mildred Bliss, who with her husband, Robert, A.B. 1900, created what is now …
Issue: May-June 2020
Five Questions with George Cooper ’25 on Student-Musicians
George Cooper ’25, a Mather House music concentrator originally from Los Angeles, is captain of the Harvard men’s baseball team, where he plays infielder/outfielder. To date, Cooper has played in 107 baseball games for the Crimson, batting .303 while …