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Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement with an Agassiz neighborhood group about the scope of development there during the next 25 years. In a "memorandum of …
Issue: March-April 2004
Flame and Ashes
Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement with an Agassiz neighborhood group about the scope of development there during the next 25 years. In a "memorandum of …
Issue: March-April 2004
Agassiz Agreement
Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement with an Agassiz neighborhood group about the scope of development there during the next 25 years. In a "memorandum of …
Issue: March-April 2004
Harvard Sexual Assault Report Calls for Training, Culture Change
A University task force charged with making recommendations for the prevention of sexual assault at Harvard issued its final report today. It calls for changing the campus culture (including such fixtures as single-sex undergraduate final clubs) and for …
Unfinished Business
The conclusion of Drew Faust’s presidency coincides with Michael D. Smith’s announced departure from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deanship. Faust and Smith, like Neil L. Rudenstine and Jeremy R. Knowles, held their offices for the duration of a …
Issue: July-August 2018
Elbow Room
No outward sign sets the pale yellow house at 31 Inman Street apart from its neighbors. Someone going on a literary pilgrimage in Cambridge might start a mile away, at 104 Irving Street, where e.e. cummings ’15 grew up; then head west, to 16 Ash Street, …
Issue: March-April 2016
The New Little Magazines
Seven hundred people were surrounded by taxidermied peacocks and monkeys in the lounge of New York’s Jane Hotel. That evening this spring, they gathered beneath the erratic light of a disco ball. And they were there to talk about literature. When Kiara …
Issue: September-October 2023
Campus Conversations on Speech
At Harvard , there are research areas that can’t be investigated, subjects that can’t be broached in public, and ideas that can’t be discussed in a classroom. So says a group of more than 120 Harvard faculty members, who have formed a Council on Academic …
Issue: September-October 2023
Mary Ellen Avery
When Mary Ellen Avery finally began to walk, at 19 months, her mother wrote, “Having discovered she could walk, she kept steadily at it.” That observation characterized the rest of Mel Avery’s life. From childhood on, she clearly had an outsized sense of …
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Issue: March-April 2018
Corporation Member James F. Rothenberg Dies
Bloomberg reported on July 21 that James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70—a member of the Harvard Corporation and past University treasurer , and chair of the board of Harvard Management Company , which oversees the endowment—died of a heart attack at age …
Tamara Elliott Rogers to Step Down
Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74, vice president for alumni affairs and development, announced today that she would step down at the end of 2018. The timing is logical: The Harvard Campaign, which she has directed, concludes June 30 (the end of the academic …
Holiday Decorating on Steroids
Forget a lone Christmas tree, front door wreath, and even a slew of dangling baubles. For seriously dazzling holiday decorations, head instead to two Newport, Rhode Island, mansions meticulously dolled up for the season. The Preservation Society of …
Issue: November-December 2024
Decoding the Deep
Click, click, click. Sharp staccato reports, like firecrackers, or a spitting log as it burns, end in a crescendo of sound resembling a rapidly spinning cog rattle, followed by a final extra click. “Dive,” one sperm whale is saying to another. This is the …
Issue: July-August 2024
Chasing History
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report On a wintry day in 1946, more than 15,000 spectators crowded into the old Boston Garden to watch Harvard and Yale compete in one of the most important college basketball games of the season. For one …
Brevia
Animal-Rights Threats Opposition to the use of animals in biomedical research (the subject of this magazine's January-February 1999 cover story) took a more threatening turn in October. A group calling itself the "Justice Department"--which has been …