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Educating “Citizens and Citizen Leaders”
In his book-lined office in University Hall, Rakesh Khurana keeps handy a well-worn copy of Samuel Atkins Eliot’s 1848 A Sketch of the History of Harvard College and of Its Present State. The slender, red volume arrived in the mail last summer, an …
Issue: July-August 2015
An Inconsistent Beginning
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Last Monday, to commemorate Martin Luther King Day, Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker shared with his players an adage from the civil-rights leader: “The ultimate measure of a man is not …
A Scholar in the House
Tradition and the twenty-first century were tangled together in Barker Center’s Thompson Room on the afternoon of February 11, when Drew Gilpin Faust conducted her first news conference as Harvard’s president-elect. Daniel Chester French’s bronze bust of …
Issue: July-August 2007
Capturing the American South
A Long Arc : Photography and the American South since 1845, opening March 2 at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, is a sweeping survey of the region. Yet don’t expect it to “distill the messiness and infinite nuance of the …
Issue: March-April 2024
From Crimson Madness to March Madness?
Introducing Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report On Friday evening, October 17, Crimson Madness—a kickoff event to celebrate the start of the Harvard men’s basketball team’s fall practices—began in normal enough fashion. Shortly after …
Football: Harvard 22, Brown 14
After Saturday night’s game against Harvard at Brown Stadium, Brown treated the 13,511 spectators to a fireworks show as part of the university’s 250th anniversary celebration. Actually, the fireworks had begun about 45 minutes earlier. Trailing 14-6 and …
Convocation 2017: What Should an Education Be at Such a Moment?
“It was on this annual occasion of welcoming the incoming College class,” University president Drew Faust said at yesterday afternoon’s Freshman Convocation ceremony, “that a former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the late Jeremy Knowles, …
Harvard Presidential Search Advances
As the committee consisting of members from the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers pursues the search for the successor to President Drew Faust , faculty and staff advisory committees were unveiled today. The members of the faculty advisory …
Making Music Out of DNA Loops
There is music in DNA loops. The genome, which otherwise would be the height of a refrigerator, folds into a microscopic bundle inside the nucleus of a cell, knitting itself into “loops” of genetic information. Four years ago, composer and scientist Amir …
Issue: September-October 2023
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
The Loneliness Pandemic
Bradley Riew ’18 had a calendar reliably packed from 9 a.m. to midnight. To him, that didn’t seem so bad. “You know,” he says, “you have nine hours to sleep.” On top of his schoolwork and various extracurriculars, he spent about 20 hours a week …
Issue: January-February 2021
Raising Voices
During the University’s traumatic fall semester, several harshly critical voices attracted outsized attention. Hedge fund financier Bill Ackman ’88, M.B.A. ’92, took to X to bash pro-Hamas students; assail then-President Claudine Gay; and declare …
Issue: May-June 2024
Cognitive Benefits of Healthy Buildings
Imagine a business that creates a perfectly energy-efficient environment by adjusting ventilation rates in its workplace. On paper, the outcome would seem overwhelmingly positive: fewer greenhouse-gas emissions to the environment and lowered costs to the …
Issue: May-June 2017
The FAS and SEAS Campaign Co-Chairs
The leaders of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) capital campaigns—scheduled to be unveiled at Sanders Theatre on October 26—include the following six co-chairs. ( Check Harvard Magazine 's …
The Book on Houghton
I n connection with the inaugural exhibition celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Houghton Library , Heather G. Cole, assistant curator of modern books and manuscripts, and John H. Overholt, curator of the Hyde collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson and …
Issue: March-April 2017