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A Musical Education
Harpsichordist Irma Rogell ’39 made her stage debut, in Boston’s Jordan Hall, at the age of 40. Her background, as the last pupil of Wanda Landowska, the Polish-French harpsichordist credited with reviving popular interest in that instrument, spoke for …
Issue: May-June 2005
The University in “Contentious Times”
President Lawrence S. Bacow, speaking at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (John Harvard’s alma mater, in 1632), on January 25 addressed the challenge of maintaining universities as places for honest, thoughtful inquiry at a time of both external …
Re-Development
After two years in limbo, the Center for International Development (CID) has at least a temporary new lease on life. The appointment of Kamal professor of public policy Mark R. Rosenzweig, a development economist, as the center's director suggests a …
Issue: November-December 2004
Harvard Calendar
THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents Marcel Marceau and the Marceau Company in Les Contes Fantastiques (Fantastic Fables), a collection of mime performances, from September 10 through October 9 at the Loeb Drama Center. For tickets and …
Issue: September-October 2004
Aiding Financial Aid
Two recent gifts and a change in graduate-student support, respectively, bolster Harvard's efforts to encourage public service; help students from lower-income families who pursue higher education at the College; and ease the completion of doctoral …
Issue: July-August 2004
Class-conscious Financial Aid
Harvard has enhanced its undergraduate financial-aid program in an effort to make the College more attractive to lower-income students. Beginning this fall, the parental contribution toward tuition, room, and board will be eliminated for entering and …
Issue: May-June 2004
A God’s Eye View of Space
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
Allston Budget Billions
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
Combating Bias
In early May, when the cochairs of the University’s task forces on combating antisemitism and combating anti-Muslim, -Arab, and -Palestinian bias commented briefly on what they had heard from the community, they offered similar impressions. Ali S. Asani, …
Issue: September-October 2024
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 …
Amalie M. Kass , Eleanor G. Shore
Issue: March-April 2018
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 …
Encouraging Esperanto
Cu vi parolas Esperanton? (Do you speak Esperanto?) For many, the answer may be surprising: more than two million people worldwide do, including Ruth Kevess-Cohen ’78. Esperanto, devised by Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof and introduced in an 1887 booklet, is the …
Issue: January-February 2016
Performing for the President
On Thursday evening an “Arts Prelude” to President Claudine Gay’s official installation shook Sanders Theatre with a whirlwind of energetic, and sometimes stirringly intimate, performances—from ballet to Haitian compas ( a méringue dance music) to lyric …