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Remembering Henry Cobb, Architect of CGIS
Editor’s note: Henry Cobb ’47, M.Arch. ’49, a former professor and chair of the architecture department at the Graduate School of Design, whose work includes Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) complex, died on March 2. …
21,000 Hours
Harvard College began holding a Freshman Convocation ceremony in 2009—a formal public greeting of new freshmen by the president and deans, and the only occasion when the students gather as a class before graduation. This year’s Convocation took place on …
Finding Harvard’s Voice
In late March , Danielle Allen , Harvard’s Conant University Professor, spoke at Brigham Young University (BYU) on how to be a “confident pluralist.” The crowd was so large that the event took place in the basketball arena. Students surely were excited to …
The New England Folk Festival
Why not launch your day with a rousing ukulele workshop? Then waltz over to sessions on English hand-bell ringing and South African choral music before hitting a Balkan dance party. This year’s New England Folk Festival (April 24-26 at Acton-Boxborough …
Issue: March-April 2020
Marla Frederick Named Dean of Harvard Divinity School
Marla Frederick, formerly a professor of African and African American studies and the study of religion in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), will become dean of the Harvard Divinity School on January 1. A scholar of the African American …
Tighter Times
Harvard is not immune to the vicissitudes of the economy. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002, the University's operations produced a financial surplus of $70.4 million. That is a comfortable cushion, particularly when compared to Dartmouth and …
Issue: January-February 2003
Miller of "The Bay State Banner"
“Well, let me just tell you that I’ve always found that I thought about things—even from the time I was in grammar school—a little differently,” Melvin B. Miller ’56 told this magazine on the eve of his sixty-fifth reunion. “I was never too reluctant to …
Issue: March-April 2022
Space Architect
Constance Adams ’86 was interviewing for a job in Houston in 1995 when she decided to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center. “We were touring the site,” she remembers, “and a calm voice was explaining that one day, we would be going to Mars. Of course I sent …
Issue: January-February 2011
Combating Bias
In early May, when the cochairs of the University’s task forces on combating antisemitism and combating anti-Muslim, -Arab, and -Palestinian bias commented briefly on what they had heard from the community, they offered similar impressions. Ali S. Asani, …
Issue: September-October 2024
"Mr. Clean Vegetables John"
Expelled from Harvard in 1969 for participating in the University Hall takeover, John Berlow ’71 traveled the world, living in Israel, Canada, and West Africa. But he did not go to Vietnam until 2000. “In ’69 I was an angry young man,” he says. “I am not …
Issue: May-June 2010
Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds Steps Down
This updated, expanded report was filed May 28 at 5:00 p.m. , succeeding a brief account earlier today. Harvard College dean Evelynn M. Hammonds is stepping down at the end of the academic year. According to the news release, posted at the Harvard Public …
In Wine We Trust
Like children waiting with open bags at the door on Halloween, a dozen adults crowded around a table at the Skinner auction house wine preview in Boston, proffering empty goblets for a sip from the coveted bottles for sale. With great ceremony, Philip …
Issue: November-December 2007
Football 2018: Dartmouth 24, Harvard 17
On Saturday at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire, the Harvard football team played the role of measuring stick for the second week in a row—and the game played out similarly. After digging themselves into a hole, the Crimson stiffened and rallied …
The SIGnboard
If you seek fellow alumni who share your interests, remember that the Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 Shared Interest Groups (SIGs)—“any collection of Harvard University alumni who actively engage in communicating and/or gathering …
Issue: January-February 2009
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For Santiago's Poor, Housing with Dignity
Santiago, Chile —A young boy plays unsupervised in front of a house that bears a small wooden sign, handwritten in marker: Se venden helados (ice cream for sale). Behind this rather ordinary scene is an extraordinary story with deep Harvard ties. In this …
Issue: January-February 2009