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Nameless No More The New College Theatre , a focal point for undergraduate productions—created from 2005 to 2007 by new construction behind, and a renovation of the façade of, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals venue—has become Farkas Hall . Andrew L. Farkas …
Issue: January-February 2012
David Cutler: Can the U.S. Healthcare System Be Fixed?
No country in the world spends more on health care than the United States, or has less to show for it when compared to other wealthy nations. The U.S. spends nearly 50 percent more per capita than Switzerland, the second biggest spender among wealthy …
Yesterday's News
1922 An explosion of liquid oxygen in Jefferson Labs takes the lives of an engineering graduate student and a carpenter working in the building. 1927 The John W. Weeks Memorial Bridge is dedicated on May 14. Henry Hornblower, representing the firm of …
Issue: May-June 2002
Volatility Spikes
Investing in the stock market can seem like walking a tightrope above a financial chasm. But instead of balancing themselves against unforeseen risks, many investors fail to diversify their portfolios and wiggle onto that tightrope on just one foot. …
Issue: May-June 2002
Study Abroad, Honors at Home
The faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has made it easier for Harvard College students to study abroad, and more difficult to earn academic honors. FAS also adopted a new grading scale which, in concert with jawboning, may slow or even reverse grade …
Issue: July-August 2002
Keeping Them Close
The ambulance rolls onto a treeless street in Boston, stopping at a triple-decker across from a defunct bar and an asphalt lot. The medical team greets Crystal, exiting the house with her son in a baby carrier, and helps them inside the tight, cozy space. …
Issue: May-June 2021
The Fire in “A Burning”
In early June, as the pandemic’s disproportionate toll on racial minorities and the poor came into sharper focus and protests roiled the country in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, Megha Majumdar ’10 released her first novel, A Burning . Set in India, …
Issue: September-October 2020
Why the Grad Student Union Election Is Still Contested
Harvard’s graduate-student union election ended inconclusively last December. Although 1,456 students voted against unionization, and 1,272 voted in favor, more than 300 additional ballots—larger than the voting margin—remain under challenge. During the …
Conversation on Teaching, Continued: Going Global
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) continues its series of "Conversations@FAS" —focused this semester on teaching and learning. Following a February 11 panel and discussion on activity-based learning , the March 25 session, "Instilling a Global …
'60s Generation Confronts '90s Protest
When David Illingworth ’71 and Allan Ryan went to college, the causes of the day were civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam War. Now, campus progressive groups are rallying to oppose sweatshop labor and support a “living wage” for University …
No Surprises: Harvard's 2010 Financial Report
The Harvard University Financial Report for fiscal year 2010 (ended last June 30), released today, appears to fulfill administrators' fondest hopes in that it conveys essentially no surprises. In this respect, the report contrasts sharply with the fiscal …
The Art of Protest
Before you get to any of the poems in Clint Smith’s new book, Counting Descent —some with titles like “How to Fight,” and “No More Elegies Today,” and “Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class”—you’ll find an epigraph from Ralph Ellison’s interview with the …
Issue: January-February 2017
Harvard Reports Budget Surplus of $77 Million
For the third year in a row, Harvard reported a modest budget surplus, expressing cautious optimism about its future financial performance. Operating revenue for fiscal year 2016 exceeded operating expenses by $77 million, up from last year’s surplus of …
Land of the Living
In April and May , birders flock to Mount Auburn Cemetery. Dressed in fleece and caps, binoculars slung around their necks, they enter by the Egyptian Revival gateway at 7 a.m. , and spread stealthily across the sculpted 175-acre landscape. Winding …
Issue: May-June 2017
In Esteemed Company
Ten men and women were awarded honorary degrees from Harvard this year. Besides the Commencement speaker, U.S. Secretary of Energy (and Nobel laureate in physics) Steven Chu, the group includes a filmmaker, a jazz musician, a novelist and New Yorker …