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“Edifying and Beautiful”
Curators at Houghton Library are bringing a splash of green and other vibrant color to the building’s main lobby this summer with a new exhibition of rare and old botanical illustrations. Though visitors from the public were not able to enter Harvard Yard …
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
Running Radcliffe
President Drew Faust on April 28 appointed Higgins professor of natural sciences Barbara J. Grosz to the deanship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS). Grosz, a computer scientist who has been a Harvard faculty member since 1986 ( …
Issue: July-August 2008
Ski Team, Waxing
In the north country of New Hampshire, skiers from Dartmouth, the current NCAA champions, reign supreme, while the Green Mountains are home to the University of Vermont ski team, another perennial powerhouse. On the intercollegiate ski trail, Harvard has …
Issue: January-February 2008
Liberia’s President to Speak at Harvard Commencement
The University announced toda y that Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, M.P.A. ’71, will be the principal speaker during the afternoon exercises at Harvard's 360th Commencement, on May 26. “Over the course of her nearly 40 years in public service, …
"I Can't See My Family"
The plan was to video chat his parents on the day of Commencement. His parents, who live in Japan, couldn’t be present, but Daishi Miguel Tanaka ’19 thought that if he gave his phone to a friend who would record his turn on the stage, they could at least …
Where Do Overseers Come From?
How are members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers chosen—and what do they do, once they are elected to the governing board? Those questions, of little general interest to most of the community most of the time, have suddenly become salient because for the …
Off the Shelf
Matters military. Having really negotiated with North Korea (see “ The Korean Nuclear Crisis ,” September-October 2003, page 38), and later served as secretary of defense, Ash Carter (now director of the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and …
Issue: July-August 2019
The DNA of World Literature
Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” written in German, is notoriously difficult to translate. The poem, about a fragmentary statue of Apollo, is dense with enigmatic metaphors: the speaker describes the (imagined) eyes as ripening …
$tellar Swan Song
Ending his 15-year run as president of Harvard Management Company, Jack R. Meyer, M.B.A. ’69, and his investment colleagues turned in a rousing finale. For the fiscal year ended June 30, total investment return of 19.2 percent brought the value of …
Issue: November-December 2005
"Justice"—On Air, in Books, Online
One of Harvard's most popular and celebrated courses, "Justice" (Moral Reasoning 22), taught by Bass professor of government Michael J. Sandel, takes its tutelage outside the University’s walls this autumn with a three-pronged media package: a public …
When to Arrest Protesters
On the evening of April 30, 2024, the New York Police Department arrested 112 people in and around Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall after pro-Palestine protesters occupied the building. In Cambridge, McCormack professor of citizenship and …
Damage and Repair
When Celia Pym ’01 was 28, her great uncle died, and her father, going through the old man’s things, found a sweater he thought she would like. Pym was just starting out as a professional artist, feeling her way toward a focus on textiles and knitting. …
Issue: January-February 2022
Advancing Art
As a university task force readied its vision for curricular and facilities investments in the creative and performing arts (see our arts task force update , published after this issue went to press), Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M. ’63, gave the Harvard Art …
Issue: January-February 2009
Brevia
Significant Works Significant works from three collections—Fogg, Sackler, and Busch-Reisinger— come together for the first time in the Harvard Art Museum exhibit Re-View, at the Sackler. Although prompted by construction and renovation at the Fogg’s 32 …
Issue: November-December 2008