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The Poet of Old Age
When poets die young, youthfulness comes to seem like the essence of their work, the thing they were born to write about. If John Keats hadn’t died at 25 of tuberculosis, he might have gone on to write great poems about marriage, parenthood, and middle …
Issue: January-February 2022
Harvard Discloses Top Earners
The University’s annual tax filings covering the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019, and the accompanying disclosures released today, include the earnings of the most highly compensated Harvard administrators and those at Harvard Management Company (HMC), …
Beyond the Budget
"It was a very simple year." So Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, vice president for finance, characterizes Harvard's getting and spending for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999. The annual Financial Report to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, released …
Where the Bones Are
Documentary accounts of the historic past seldom capture the flavor of daily life hundreds of years ago. But broken pipestems, clay marbles, and chicken bones--mute castoffs--can say quite a lot about this aspect of a culture when interpreted by a …
Cornering COVID-19
Only immunity can bring an end to the current pandemic—whether through vaccination or the potentially deadly ordeal of infection. Unfortunately, it’s not a given that either a bout of COVID-19, or any of the experimental vaccines now in development, will …
Issue: July-August 2020
“To Heal and to Help”
Perhaps more than any other group of graduates on Thursday, the new doctors receiving their degrees from Harvard Medical School (HMS) stand at the edge of a precipice. They will enter their profession in the midst of a global pandemic, for which there is …
Christina Gao: No Regrets
Christina Gao ’16-17 used to be a skater first, a student second. Ever since her parents signed her up for figure-skating lessons at age seven, her life has been as much of a balancing act as the sport itself. Growing up, the slender girl from Cincinnati …
The Tiger Daughter, Intact
Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld ’18 was once considered one of the most abused children in the Western world. A main character in her mother’s bestselling parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , Lulu starred in many anecdotes that drew slings and arrows …
Masha Gessen on the Stories We Tell About Migration
Masha Gessen seemed to become famous in the United States for the essay “ Autocracy: Rules for Survival ,” published two days after the 2016 presidential election in The New York Review of Books. The Russian-American journalist and author is best known …
Warm Quinoa Salad with Roasted Fava Beans, Beets, Grapes, and Arugula
Warm Quinoa Salad with Roasted Fava Beans, Beets, Grapes, and Arugula Serves 4 Ingredients • 1 cup Red Quinoa, cooked (use your favorite grain if quinoa is not available) • 1 cup Fava Beans (use canned or dried beans, or substitute with Garbanzo …
Brevia
Welcome Home Each March, on the Thursday before spring break, freshmen learn their upperclass housing assignments. To celebrate, most Houses initiate their newcomers with T-shirts, like these from last year's festivities. Washington-Bound Among the …
Issue: March-April 2009
Harvard, H.H.R., Houghton
Henry Hobson Richardson , A.B. 1859, the leading nineteenth-century American architect—Boston’s Trinity Church, a major role in the design of the New York State Capitol, libraries, important commercial buildings, sumptuous homes—happily left his mark on …
Issue: November-December 2024
A Fictional Century
In the opening pages of his new book, Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel , Edwin Frank ’82 tries to explain exactly what he’s up to. This turns out to be a slippery task. Stranger Than Fiction is a book about books, but it’s not a …
Issue: November-December 2024
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 …
Christine Heenan to Depart
Updated 10-1-124, 10:00 p.m. Christine Heenan, vice president for public affairs and communications, will step down from that post on January 31 and move to part-time, advisory status through the end of the academic year as she begins a transition into …