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Finishing with a Flourish
It’s the 135th playing of The Game, Fenway Park, midway through the third quarter. Yale has scored 10 unanswered points to take the lead for the first time, 24-21. Nevertheless, the Harvard sideline exudes confidence. “There was no ‘woe-is-me,’” Crimson …
Issue: January-February 2019
The Community’s Conversations
To a striking degree, the speeches and welcoming messages to students at the beginning of the fall semester touched on a common theme: the importance of civil discourse and the centrality to the University’s mission of open debate in search of …
Issue: November-December 2019
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Contemporary Cuba Thank you for the customarily thoughtful piece by Jorge Domínguez on today’s Cuba (“ Hello from Havana ,” July-August, page 24). My work has taken me there about a dozen times over the last few years, and every note struck by Domínguez …
Issue: September-October 2009
Harvard Borrows $2.5 Billion: The Costs and Rationale
Moving promptly to tap the credit markets for additional financial resources--as signaled in the strategy outlined by President Drew Faust and Executive Vice President Ed Forst on December 2--the University sold $1.5 billion in taxable bonds on December …
Catalyzing Bioengineering
With his $131-million gift in support of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, announced by the University on June 7, Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65, has now made three gifts to the eponymous institute, totalling $381 million, which bring …
Issue: September-October 2019
Off the Shelf
Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome, by Cammy Brothers ’91, Ph.D. ’99 (Princeton, $75). The author, associate professor of architecture at Northeastern, returns to the subject of her dissertation: a Florentine architect (1443-1516) whose meticulous …
Issue: May-June 2022
Alumni Coalition Opposes Harvard Overseer Slate
Following the announcement of a five-person petition slate of candidates in this spring’s voting for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers , and certification of the petitioners for placement on the ballot , a number of alumni have formed an opposing …
Money-Management Makeover
The value of Harvards endowment increased by $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30, rising to $29.2 billion. The 12.7 percent growth, from the year-earlier total of $25.9 billion, reflects a 16.7 percent investment return on endowment assets …
Issue: November-December 2006
Witness to Violence
After he was hanged, John Hughson’s lifeless body was hung in chains, next to Caesar’s rotting corpse, on the island in the midst of the Little Collect. But the executioner’s work was far from done. Before the sun went down, Albany, Curacoa, Dick, and …
Issue: September-October 2005
Fantastic!
The recent announcement that Lene Vestergaard Hau had successfully changed light to matter, and then back into light, evokes the magic of carrying moonbeams home in a jar. That the general public might harbor doubts about the success of such research is …
Issue: July-August 2007
Football 2017: Harvard 38, Lafayette 10
Nothing like having your superstar return a punt 85 yards to get you back on track. Ignited by Justice Shelton-Mosley ’19, the Harvard football team cruised to a relatively stress-free 38-10 victory over Patriot League foe Lafayette in the seven-hundredth …
Making Art behind Bars
“We are not the exception to the norm—we are actually the norm,” said formerly incarcerated artist Jesse Krimes during a panel discussion at the Harvard Art Museums March 22 that followed the screening of a documentary about his life and work. “There are …
What’s Up Comes Down, and Vice Versa
On January 10, state transportation secretary Stephanie Pollack, J.D. ’85, announced that the state will rebuild the Massachusetts Turnpike at ground level where it passes through Allston, rather than maintain it on the existing elevated viaduct, which is …
Off the Shelf
Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals, by William Wright ( St. Martin’s Press, $25.95 ). A student’s suicide in 1920 led administrators to identify a group of gay or presumed gay undergraduates. A secret court of deans and …
Issue: November-December 2005
The “Wild West” of Academic Publishing
Last summer , Harvard University Press (HUP) asked a book designer to create a T-shirt for its softball squad’s intramural season. The front of the shirt bore the expression r > g, signifying that the rate of return on capital (r) is greater than the rate …
Issue: January-February 2015