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1915 Undergraduate protests against beer at class banquets prompt Bulletin editors to note that "the increase of abstinence and temperance throughout American society has become almost a commonplace observation." Illustration by Mark Steele 1920 A …
Issue: January-February 2005
Potholes, Pensions, and Politics
In January , the newly elected mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner, J.D. ’80, donned work gloves and safety goggles, picked up a shovel, and spread hot, smoking asphalt over a gaping pothole on Neuens Road in West Houston. As news reporters watched, the …
Issue: May-June 2016
Flexible Movies
“ You never see cartoons where there are bad outcomes,” says Michelle Crames, M.B.A. ’03, founder and CEO of Lean Forward Media in Los Angeles. “But bad outcomes are often the result of bad decisions.” Last year, Crames’s company released its first …
Issue: May-June 2007
Harvard Aims to Reinvent Business-Engineering Education
The most interesting new collaboration at Harvard—between the schools of business (HBS) and engineering and applied sciences (SEAS)—took a significant step forward today when their deans unveiled a joint master’s degree aimed at equipping students with …
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
On the Margins
Five whitewater kayakers gather on the banks of Peru’s Paucartambo River to deliberate whether to paddle through an especially perilous section of rapids or carry their boats around it. They’re halfway through a 17-day expedition exploring one of the …
Issue: July-August 2025
An Inclusive “One Harvard”
At a time when the world is so polarized, says tech business leader and entrepreneur Vanessa Liu ’96, J.D. ’03, Harvard’s global and intergenerational connections can help alumni “significantly impact and shape the world.” In fact, she adds, “It’s hard to …
Issue: September-October 2021
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
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
Will Global Democracy Survive?
“Ten years from now , there could be crises that make 2020 look like a garden party,” said Rockefeller professor of Latin American studies and professor of government Steven Levitsky last night. “There could be a fair amount of violence. There could be a …
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
Toward a “Modified Honor Code”?
At the April 2 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting, where discussion about administrative investigations of resident deans’ e-mail accounts dominated the day’s business , dean of undergraduate education Jay M. Harris also introduced proposals for …
Nuclear Weapons or Democracy
The most fateful object yet to appear on this planet could be the “nuclear briefcase,” or “nuclear football,” a 40-pound titanium case containing top-secret information and tools that enable the president of the United States to launch a nuclear strike. …
Issue: March-April 2014
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
Harvard Reports a Significant Surplus
The University’s financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, published today, reflects results from before Lawrence S. Bacow became president , on July 1, but depicts the conditions and resources he and his deans now have to work …