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“Even Higher” Education
Between 2011 and 2036, Harvard’s river-spanning campus in Cambridge and Allston became a magnet for mature professionals. It offered a unique advantage not available online: access to idea exchange and connections across the whole University, including …
Issue: September-October 2011
Bats, In Fact
Poor bats . For so long, they’ve been maligned and misunderstood. They’ve starred in witchy medieval stories and gothic tales, from Dracula to Batman. They’ve symbolized the depths of evil and the underworld, depicted as blood-sucking, hair-tangling …
Issue: January-February 2024
Science Dean, Soccer Judge
In an all-volunteer youth soccer league, brave parents must rise to the occasion and create order from cleated and shin-guarded chaos. In the early 2000s, one such parent was Frank Doyle, now dean of the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied …
Issue: July-August 2019
Active Duty in a Pandemic
From early April to the beginning of June, Richard Menger, M.P.A. ’16, who normally teaches neurosurgery and political science at the University of South Alabama, left his hotel at 6 a.m. each morning with three other doctors, all in uniform, and walked …
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
Allston Development Director Departs—Updated
Christopher M. Gordon, who joined the University in 2005 to direct accelerated development of the University’s planned campus growth in Allston, has decided to relinquish his position. President Drew Faust announced in an e-mail today that Gordon, who is …
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
Mysteries
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office The new spirit house at Adams House Darting a glance at the structure at right, avian visitors to Randolph Courtyard at Harvard’s Adams House might tweet with delight that so impressive an edifice had been …
Issue: March-April 2011
Paper Persists
Paper lives. Two recent reminders that paper still has a purpose have come to Primus’s attention. Daniel D. Reiff ’63, Ph.D. ’70, an art historian at Fredonia State University who retired as SUNY Distinguished Service Professor emeritus in 2004, wrote …
Issue: May-June 2019
No. Not Yet. Never.
Primus’s dentist once had him in the chair, mouth wide and jammed with oral hardware, when the dentist revealed that he had spent the morning in court in divorce proceedings initiated by his wife. “There is no pain worse,” said the dentist, drill poised, …
Issue: July-August 2009
University People
Overseers Elevated The Board of Overseers, the University’s junior governing board, has elected Merrick B. Garland ’ 74, J.D. ’77, as president and Ann M. Fudge , M.B.A. ’77, as vice chair of the executive committee for 2009-2010. Garland is a judge on …
Issue: July-August 2009
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 …
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 …
From Soaps to Solos
Operatic bass Ethan Herschenfeld ’90 never gave a thought to performing until he auditioned with his roommate, on a lark, for one of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ operettas during freshman year. He became a familiar presence on …
Issue: July-August 2008
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 …