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Theatrical Debut
Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) returns to its historic home this year for its 160th production. (Since the inaugural show in 1844, the group has missed only four years, taking a hiatus during each of the two world wars.) But the theater at 10-12 Holyoke …
Issue: January-February 2008
First-hand recollections
Harvard University Sports Information Herman "Gunny" Gundlach '35, Harvard's oldest living football captain "It was just a thrill to walk out in that stadium. You felt like you were going to war. Just before the Yale game, our coach, Eddie Casey, liked to …
Issue: September-October 2003
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, …
Brevia
Top Billing for Two Bills Kristie Bull / Associated Press William H. Gates III Charlie Riedel / Associated Press William J. Clinton Former U.S. president Bill Clinton will be the class of 2007’s Class Day speaker on June 6. Of late he has …
Issue: May-June 2007
A Lone Star Saga
“The best I can describe it,” says Justin Deabler, of the years he spent writing his semi-autobiographical debut novel, “is that I was trying to answer questions that nobody was around to answer anymore. And that I couldn’t let go of.” Those …
Issue: March-April 2021
Ghosts in the Yard
Richard Lawrence Robert Crowder, M.P.A. ’07 Kennedy School of Government, delivers the Graduate English Oration titled "Ghosts in the Yard" for Harvard's 356th Commencement Exercises. (Speech as prepared ) Some of you may have entered Harvard Yard today …
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. The tenth annual ArtsFirst festival, offering dozens of student performances of music, dance, and drama, most of them free and open to the public, is slated for May 2-5 in and around Harvard Square. Visit www.fas.harvard.edu/~arts. Bring a picnic …
Issue: May-June 2002
Crimson in Congress
In the aftermath of last November’s elections for the 110th Congress, one Harvard alumnus stood very much alone. Representative Thomas Petri ’62, LL.B. ’65, Republican of Wisconsin, is the sole remaining member of his party in the House to …
Issue: January-February 2007
Far from Clueless
Like many Harvard seniors, Sofia Lidskog '01 interviewed for jobs with investment banks and management consulting firms in New York City. "I was on the treadmill with everybody else," she says. "But my heart wasn't in it. I wanted to perform." Less than a …
Issue: January-February 2002
University People
Development Leader to Depart With the Harvard Campaign headed for a record finish as of June 30, the same day Drew Faust’s presidency concludes, Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 has made public her plan to step down as vice president for alumni affairs and …
Issue: March-April 2018
Lessons from the Limelight
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Learning from Performers debuted 30 years ago. Jerold S. Kayden ’75, M.C.R.-J.D. ’79, hatched the idea for it and Myra Mayman, head of the Office for the Arts, embraced it. “I was president …
Issue: September-October 2005
Congo Report
The charismatic, maverick field anthropologist Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam ’25 moved to what was then the Belgian Congo in the 1930s to study the Mbuti Pygmies. On a visit back to the United States, he met New York artist Anne Eisner, who was seduced by …
Issue: September-October 2005
Cheering Chow
Each year, about 19 million adult Americans report the onset of depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. That’s 9.5 percent of our adult population. In Japan and Korea, the figure is drastically lower—around 2 percent. …
Issue: September-October 2005
Bureau of Study Counsel, R.I.P.
The College today announced a significant change in academic counseling, including a fall-semester transition from the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) to a new entity, named the Academic Resource Center (ARC), which will likely result in a much-changed …
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Ethics Education As a frequent speaker on business ethics, I was eager to read “Making Organizations Moral,” along with its subtitle “Ethics Elevated” (November-December 2014). But I was quickly disappointed as I read Professor Max Bazerman’s comment that …
Issue: January-February 2015