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Down-under Dominator
Seventy-eight feet away at the other end of the tennis court, she doesn’t seem prepossessing. The young Aussie stands five feet, two inches, with small bones and a sweet face. Unlike so many American college players, she is not a trained bundle of …
Issue: July-August 2006
Ivy Sports in Retreat
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, universities across the country have dropped varsity sports teams at an unprecedented rate. At the Division I level, cuts began to be announced in early April. Facing declining enrollments, universities like Old Dominion …
An Embodied Voice
A Latin American immigrant living in Los Angeles listens to the radio on her way home. She hears a familiar public-service announcement in Spanish: a rapid and caring voice, the kind that might belong to a concerned aunt, reminding LA Metro commuters to …
Issue: September-October 2020
El-Erian for the Endowment
More than a name and face will change at Harvard Management Company (HMC), the investment organization for the University’s endowment, with the arrival early this year of Mohamed A. El-Erian as president and chief executive officer. The appointment was …
Issue: January-February 2006
Frances Glessner Lee
To a forensic investigator, trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years, listing both her married name and her honorary title—captain of the New Hampshire State Police. A hybrid of the …
Issue: September-October 2005
Latin Salutatory: “Campus of Dreams”
by Caitlin Cecilia Gilespie '05 Authorized English translaton follows... Praeses Aestive, Decani, Professores, vos qui geritis et exercitis nostros manipulos Harvardianos; amici et familiae, qui nos honati sunt sicut fautores avidissimi in Campo Paludum; …
Curriculum Queries
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) devoted much of its last three regular spring business meetings to reports on the undergraduate curriculum. Formal legislation on a new course of study, once planned for this spring, has been deferred until next …
Issue: July-August 2005
The Gravity of Groups
One evening during graduate school, Mina Cikara was chatting with her future husband and another friend, who was wearing a baseball cap backward. At first, she recalls, it was a very civil conversation. But then her friend turned around, revealing a New …
Issue: May-June 2024
Women and Tenure
The discussion of tenured appointments of women within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) cooled somewhat during an extended airing of the issues at a faculty meeting December 14 (see " Tenure and Gender ," January-February, page 64). Then, beyond …
Issue: March-April 2005
Seriously Goofy
When Karen Chee ’17 was a child, her parents proved definitively that TV was bad for her. During a Jeopardy broadcast, Chee’s mother had her count how many times producers cut to different shots. Each change, her mother said, sapped one’s ability to …
Issue: July-August 2020
Callimachus
Theon, a would-be critic: Callimachus! It’s not often we run into you outside the Library. Have you come to see the victory procession of our benefactor, King Ptolemy? We all enjoyed that Hymn to Zeus you wrote about him. “Who should we sing but the …
Issue: July-August 2020
Reconfiguring Radcliffe
The institutional transformation of Radcliffe into an center for advanced study will be followed by physical changes, as the institute reclaims long-leased buildings for its own use during the next few years. A planning study undertaken by architects …
Issue: January-February 2003
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
In December 2023, David Carpenter was deep in the digital stacks of the Harvard Law School Library, sifting through unofficial copies of the Magna Carta for a book project, when he stumbled upon a document unassumingly titled “HLS MS 172.” On the …
My Zero-Minute Commute to Zoom University
During my first semester of college, I slept roughly 150 feet from my 10:30 a.m. humanities lecture. Drunk on my newfound freedom, I wanted to set my alarm as late as possible. At first, since I was used to driving to high school, I went for a …
Beyond Wages in the Workplace
The terms of employment Harvard offers its lowest-paid and part-time workers would change significantly if the recommendations of a faculty and administrative committee are adopted. The recommendations, issued May 4, include educating entry-level workers …