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Governing Harvard
Harvard, founded in 1636, has by law been formally governed by a Board of Overseers since 1642, and by the Corporation since 1650. The last legislation significantly affecting those structures—establishing the current form of the Overseers—dates …
Issue: May-June 2006
Tackling the Dental Care Desert
In Joplin, Missouri, a group of women that includes Harvard alumnae is creating a new college of dental medicine, helping to bridge a gap that seldom makes headlines: the scarcity of oral health care in rural America. Across the country, the number of …
Fast Start
Although she will not move into the president’s office in Massachusetts Hall until July 1, President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust has launched her transition briskly. Drawing on her experience as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (in which …
Issue: May-June 2007
A Feel for the Water
Yale was determined. They were heartily sick of Harvard’s ownership of the annual Harvard-Yale crew race, where the Bulldogs’ only win this century came in 2007. Indeed, the late Harry Parker, arguably the greatest rowing coach of all time , amassed a …
Issue: May-June 2015
Boston’s Cycleboat Cruises
Sipping their canned tequila cocktails, two young women who’d hopped aboard the Cycleboat Boston cruise gamely pedaled away from Charlestown’s Pier 6 . A briny breeze kicked up. Along with four other riders, including a just-married couple, they were out …
Issue: July-August 2021
Justice Seeker
Stephen j. rapp ’71 is no longer an assistant secretary of state, but his work to bring international criminals to justice is moving full speed ahead. Based in The Hague, he plays a leading role in the effort to put Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and …
Issue: March-April 2018
Royall House and Slave Quarters
I saac Royall Sr. built a fortune on his Antigua sugar plantation and returned to Boston in 1737 to settle into an opulent Georgian mansion in what’s now Medford, Massachusetts. To operate the surrounding 500-acre farm, enormous by colonial-era standards, …
Issue: September-October 2020
Kennedy School’s Campus Makeover
The Harvard Kennedy School ’s (HKS) light and airy new campus, unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning, looks like an intentional antithesis to its older, stuffy buildings. As architect Graham Wyatt put it, “When we came to your campus, we …
School Goes Remote
The Ec 10 midterm was scheduled for Wednesday, March 11, but there had to be some changes. As emails from Harvard leaders arrived the week before, discouraging recreational travel and prohibiting University trips due to the spread of COVID-19, professors …
Issue: November-December 2020
Priscilla Chan Grants $12 Million for Public Service
When last seen on campus, during her tenth reunion, pediatrician Priscilla Chan ’07, poncho-clad, was applauding her husband, Mark Zuckerberg ’06, LL.D.’17 , Facebook’s co-founder and CEO, as he finally got his Harvard degree and delivered the address at …
Yesterday’s News
1919 Alice Hamilton is appointed assistant professor of industrial medicine, becoming the first woman to hold a professorial position at the University. 1939 A negotiated agreement on raises ends the threat of a strike by dining hall workers, and the …
Issue: March-April 2024
Point of No Return
Soon after the Harvard community was upended and scattered around the world by the COVID-19 evacuation, I called my two roommates. Pre-move-out, whenever I felt like my world was falling apart, I could always depend on returning to our room in Adams. The …
Issue: July-August 2020
Wisdom of the Sages
The spring of 1933 was a trying time: the depths of the Depression, a new president scrambling to reverse systemic disasters and lift shattered spirits. Sound familiar? During that Commencement week, the Phi Beta Kappa Orator was Connecticut governor …
Issue: May-June 2021
“My Name is Bono, and I Am A Rock Star”
Graduating seniors chose U2 lead singer Bono to give their Class Day address. Born Paul Hewson, he allegedly picked up his nickname from Bono Vox, bad Latin for "good voice." He spoke of how he reached a new personal level of "unhip." Excerpts follow. …
The Magic of Luigi Lucioni
The Shelburne Museum’s exhibition “Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light,” through October 16, offers a close look at the artist, who, when pressed, described his take on the world as “super realism.” It’s the first comprehensive show of his paintings, works on …
Issue: September-October 2022