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SPECIAL. The thirty-second annual ice skating exhibition An Evening with Champions, organized by the students at Eliot House, takes place at the Bright Hockey Center on October 12 and 13 at 8 p.m., with an additional matinee at 2 p.m. on October 13. …
Issue: September-October 2001
Brevia
Michael E. Porter , M.B.A. '71, Ph.D. '73, a member of the Business School faculty since 1973 and an internationally recognized scholar of strategy and competitiven Strategist-in-Chief Michael E. Porter , M.B.A. '71, Ph.D. '73, a member of the Business …
Issue: March-April 2001
At Camp, a Community
As our car sped away from Logan Airport, into Boston and out along the Charles, my eyes widened as the cupolas of Harvard came into view. “Do I really go there?” I mused aloud. At that moment, I couldn’t have felt farther away from being a Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2011
On Being “Printerly”
In her introduction to Contact: Art and the Pull of Print , Jennifer L. Roberts wants you to know what the book is not about as much as what it is . One term, she explains, won’t be mentioned past this very deliberate point of omission: “reproduction” and …
Issue: July-August 2024
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
Bulfinch Magic
Architect Charles Bulfinch performed a death-defying feat in University Hall 188 years ago. He caused to be built a staircase of heavy granite, tons of it, that would float in space, supported (presumably) by its own interlocking steps. In fact, nobody …
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, …
Dedicating Maxwell Dworkin
How is it that a famous liberal-arts center like Harvard, home to what is arguably the world's first computer, could also be called the birthplace of the world's most successful software company? Are we sure we're not talking about MIT? At the dedication …
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 …
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 …
Football 2019: Penn 24, Harvard 20
We’re beginning to sense a pattern. On Saturday at the Stadium, in its final home game of the season, the Harvard football team experienced its fourth consecutive agonizing loss to an Ivy League rival. This time the tormentor was Penn, which scored on a …
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
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
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
HBS Halts Hybrid Learning
Harvard Business School (HBS) announced that a rising number of coronavirus cases has forced it to pull back from hybrid (in-class and remote) learning for the rest of the semester. Although the Medical School has had its second- through fourth-year M.D. …