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From the Soil Up
This year marks one hundred years since Beatrix Farrand designed the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard’s 16-acre research institution in Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and garden and landscape studies tucked in the northern …
Football 2018: Harvard 36, San Diego 14
On October 18, 1924, Illinois running back Red Grange had a quarter for the ages against Michigan, scoring touchdowns on runs of 95, 67, 56 and 44 yards—all in the game’s first 12 minutes. On Saturday at Harvard Stadium, Harvard running back Aaron …
Admissions, through the Ages
Eight years out of Yale—after stints as a U.S. Marine platoon leader and a teacher—Dwight D. Miller joined the Harvard College admissions office in July 1967. That was before the merger with Radcliffe; before the Supreme Court first ruled on affirmative …
Issue: September-October 2019
Faculty Meeting Summary
In a remarkable meeting held on the Ides of March in the Loeb Drama Center, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) twice voted to register its lack of confidence in and concerns over the presidency of Lawrence H. Summers. The meeting followed highly …
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Scientific Ventures Albert J. Weatherhead Celia J. Weatherhead Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Flexible funding for innovative research in basic and applied sciences throughout the University is the goal of a …
Issue: March-April 2005
Bookish
O ne casualty of the 2008-2009 financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession was the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ physical Courses of Instruction catalog: it and the Student Handbook , Q Guide , and other publications got the ax as of April 1, 2009, …
Issue: January-February 2023
Money Matters
An updated, second edition of Managing Harvard’s Resources —with reports from the University’s treasurer, James F. Rothenberg, and chief financial officer, Elizabeth Mora, vice president for finance; simplified financial statements; and details on …
Issue: March-April 2007
Imagine That!
A woman repairing an automobile—and showing us the tops of her stockings! This is not a “True Woman,” domestic, docile, dependent on a man. No, she is the “New Woman,” freed from whalebone corsets and stays, spirited, athletic, demanding a right to …
Issue: March-April 2007
The Week’s Words
“The Rule of Truth” In a year of harsh attacks on higher education, and worrisome erosions of academic freedom, Drew Gilpin Faust, president emerita, focused her May 21 Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) oration on the values and worth of universities, and the threats …
Issue: July-August 2024
Allston Performing Arts Center Planned
On November 30, Harvard filed plans with the City of Boston to construct a new performing arts center at 175 North Harvard St. in Allston. Ever since the University first announced plans to expand across the Charles River, the arts have been envisioned as …
Leslie Jamison’s Many Selves
Leslie Jamison ’04 spent the summer after her freshman year at home in Los Angeles with her jaw wired shut. A 20-foot fall from a vine in Costa Rica broke her joint hinge; as she healed after surgery, the wire held her bones in place. For two months, she …
Issue: March-April 2025
Elsewhere
Since 2001, College students’ international experiences during their Harvard years—formal study abroad, research, work or public service, internships—have evolved from the “unusual” to the “almost routine.” So reported Gutman professor of Latin American …
Issue: January-February 2006
COVID-19 Common Sense
A November 17 news briefing by Harvard and other Boston area experts on the current state of COVID-19 in the United States began with a “weather report:” Case data no longer reflect the intensity of the pandemic, said Harvard Medical School (HMS) …
HAA News
Share and Share Alike The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has taken a big step toward adding shared interest groups (SIGs) to the list of alumni organizations it serves. Earlier this year, the HAA board approved a policy enabling the association to …
Issue: May-June 2004
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Pudding Pluralism On the occasion of honoring (and roasting) Woman of the Year Mila Kunis—a star of That 70s Show, Family Guy, Black Swan, and other series and films—on January 25 (shown above in the traditional parade), Hasty Pudding Theatricals …
Issue: March-April 2018