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Arts First
“The artist is always working with mingled gladness and disappointment towards an ideal he never attains. It is his struggle toward that ideal which makes his life a happy one.” — President Charles W. Eliot It’s been quite a year …
Issue: March-April 2017
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
Apply for a Fellowship
Harvard Magazine offers two fellowships to current undergraduates who are freshmen, sophomores, or juniors in Harvard College. LEDECKY FELLOWSHIPS THE BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM, supported by Jonathan J. Ledecky ’79, …
Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100
Tony Saich begins his magisterial account of the hundred-year history of the Chinese Communist Party (with publication timed for the centennial, this July) with a conundrum. The CCP today has almost 90 million members. With branches in more than 4.5 …
Issue: July-August 2021
Brevia
Robert E. Rubin U.S. Treasury Coming Attraction The Harvard Alumni Association's guest speaker on Commencement afternoon will be former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60, earlier of Goldman, Sachs and now chairman of the ex-ecutive …
Lorenzo Tañada
“Have you known how it feels to be tear-gassed?” the 86-year-old former senator shouted at police chiefs and generals after a September 1985 demonstration in Manila. Lorenzo M. Tañada, LL.M. ’28, had joined what he called “the parliament of the streets,” …
Issue: November-December 2020
University People
Doctor in the House Harvey V. Fineberg, Harvard’s provost, began a medical leave and underwent surgery December 16 for what was described as an early-stage cancer of the prostate. Fineberg, himself an M.D. (’71, as well as an A.B. ’67, M.P.P. ’72, and …
Harvard Endowment Increases 4.3 Percent to $40.9 Billion
Highlights for fiscal 2019: •The endowment’s value was $40.9 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2019—an increase of $1.7 billion (4.3 percent) from $39.2 billion a year earlier . •In a year when other institutions’ endowments are …
Graduate-Student Squeeze
Harvard graduate students will receive stipend increases of 1.5 percent next year, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Xiao-Li Meng wrote in an email to students this week. The increase represents a significant reduction from previous …
One-Quarter of Eligible Professors Accept Retirement Program
of the 176 senior faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and four professional schools who were offered a retirement program last December , 46—or 26 percent—have enrolled. That information, and data in another recent report to the …
The New Tenure Track
Mary Lewis, a member of the faculty since 2002 and previously Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, has been named professor of history. Gita Gopinath, a member of the faculty since 2005 and previously associate professor of economics, has been …
Issue: September-October 2010
Endowment Overhaul
Beginning his eighth week as president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC), N.V. Narvekar on January 25 announced sweeping changes in how the University’s $35.7-billion endowment will be invested. Change was expected. HMC’s average annualized rate …
Issue: March-April 2017
Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent
A dissent by Justice Elena Kagan, J.D. ’86, in June illustrated why she won acclaim as a writer when she began to publish opinions after joining the Supreme Court in 2010. In the case, the six Republican-appointed justices made it much harder for the …
Issue: November-December 2022
What’s in the New Dining Workers’ Contract?
Harvard dining workers are celebrating the end of their 22-day strike this week, following a Wednesday vote of 583-1 approving the new contract between the University and UNITE HERE Local 26, the union that represents Harvard University Dining Services …
Are Mushrooms the New Meat?
On the western side of Martha’s Vineyard, a dirt road winds past secluded summer homes with ocean views and then dead-ends at an eerie sight: 45,000 oak logs stacked in crosshatch formations under a canopy of trees. In the nearby lot, young men with …
Issue: July-August 2019