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Uncommon Chef
In the summer of 2003, a new eatery popped up among the numerous meat-and-potato diners and Sunday-morning-Bloody-Mary bars in Spooner, a northwestern Wisconsin town with a population of fewer than 3,000. A cheerful red rooster was painted on the window …
Issue: July-August 2006
Money and Military Recruiting
With a fiscal gun at the University’s head, Harvard Law School (HLS) has reversed its position on military recruiting on its campus. The armed services now have access to students through the Office of Career Services (OCS), rather than through informal …
Issue: November-December 2005
Albanian Joins the Language Curriculum
Harvard has an addition to its language courses: Elementary Albanian I classes began this semester, housed in the Near Eastern languages and civilizations (NELC) department, which also offers Aramaic, Persian, Turkish, Yiddish, and more. Edona Cosovic, a …
Teaching the Harvard Slavery Report
Not quite a year after Harvard laid bare its historic ties to slavery in a detailed 134-page report , a small group of faculty members and teaching staff gathered on campus late last week for a two-day seminar on how to integrate that report’s findings …
For the Virtual Museumgoer
The Busch-Reisinger museum will celebrate its hundredth birthday by mounting an exhibition, from October 24 through February 15, 2004, devoted to art in Germany in 1903, its natal year. That was a vibrant time in the arts community, as about 40 paintings, …
Issue: September-October 2003
News Briefs
Mending the Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) has sold a 99-year leasehold in eight of the 11 floors of its Harvard Institutes of Medicine building. The decision to sell the interest in 190,000-plus square feet of lab space ( News Briefs , …
Issue: September-October 2018
Cambridge 02138
"Ask me what College class I was in," says Harvard Alumni Association president Charles L. Brock, "and I have to admit I don't have any." He jokes about being a "minority" at the HAA because he earned his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University …
Issue: September-October 2002
"Only" a Law School Man
"Ask me what College class I was in," says Harvard Alumni Association president Charles L. Brock, "and I have to admit I don't have any." He jokes about being a "minority" at the HAA because he earned his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University …
Issue: September-October 2002
Abortion Rights Advocacy: Past and Present
In 1970 , when Mary Summers ’70 and three other women’s rights activists—Jane Pincus, Karen Weinstein, and Catha Maslow—made a documentary about illegal abortion, they saw it as an organizing tool for state-by-state legalization efforts. Fifty-two years …
The Gamut of Grades from A to B
Slightly more than half the grades given to Harvard undergraduates during the past three academic years have been A or A-. More than any other datum, that underscores the "general upward trend in grades across divisions and across course sizes," as …
Issue: January-February 2002
Meet the Candidates
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2022 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open from April 1 through May 17. …
Issue: March-April 2022
Being on “The Bachelor”
One evening in the fall of 2021, a Harvard graduate stepped out of a stretch limousine wearing nothing but a doctor’s coat, red stethoscope, and red lingerie to match. Thirty-two-year-old Kira Mengistu ’11, an internal medicine physician at the University …
Museums, Making Their Way
James Cuno, Ph.D. ’85, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles, was at the Museum of Diego Rivera in Mexico City, in mid March, when he heard that California governor Gavin Newsom had shuttered all non-essential state businesses and ordered …
Yesterday's News
1920 The physical examination of all 700 Harvard freshmen, in connection with a new system of compulsory freshman athletics, has been completed, with each student classified according to his “bodily mechanics” (posture). Only 7.5 percent of the class …
Existence as Resistance
“Guess who was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century.” Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Studies, prepares for the surprise on my face. As it turns …