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“Drip, Drip, Drip”
Erwin Cai ’20 knew he should make a defensive move. The problem was execution. A sabre fencer since age eight, he predicted that his opponent was about to attack. If he could parry and riposte—block the Yale captain’s attack and go in for his own—he …
Issue: May-June 2020
Opera Reimagined
On the last day of winter break, as other undergraduates emerged from taxis and the T bleary-eyed and hauling suitcases, the cast of the Lowell House Opera gathered in the Lowell Junior Common Room to put together the pieces of The Unknowable for the …
Talented Eccentrics
Within living memory, computer programming was handicraft. Individual programmers strained to create works that were both useful and beautiful—the two virtues went together. In 1984, Steven Levy’s book Hackers thrillingly documented this heroic age of …
Issue: March-April 2007
President Bacow‘s Alumni Day Speech
(Speech published as prepared for delivery) Thank you, Vanessa [Liu], for that generous introduction—and for your steadfast leadership of the Harvard Alumni Association. We appreciate all you have done this year to keep our community as strong as …
Sweeping Change for Science
The University Planning Committee for Science and Engineering released on July 14 a preliminary report outlining a comprehensive and sweeping strategy to strengthen science at Harvard. Among the highlights, the 97-page report ( PDF ) calls for up to 140 …
Issue: September-October 2006
Is Nuclear Power Scalable?
Heinz professor of environmental policy John Holdren, who holds a joint appointment in the Faculty of Arts and Science’s department of earth and planetary sciences, counts himself among the environmentalists who believe a contribution from the expansion …
Issue: May-June 2006
Serving on the Corporation
D. Ronald Daniel : While the bylaws do not set any limits with respect to time or age, within the last 10 years the Corporation itself has more or less agreed that 10 years or age 72, depending on when somebody arrives at the Corporation, would be the …
Issue: May-June 2006
Harvard Credit for High-Schoolers
“This is a story about kids succeeding, about the success of an experiment,” says Cabot professor of American literature Elisa New, describing the online poetry course she taught last fall to an unusual set of enrollees: eleventh- and twelfth-graders from …
Issue: March-April 2020
News from the HAA
Alumni Abroad As classes resumed in Cambridge, alumni on both sides of the Atlantic were gearing up for the "Harvard in Europe" conference in London. The event, to be held November 14 and 15, is part of the Harvard Alumni Association's Global Series. …
Issue: November-December 2003
The Black…and the Red
H arvard achieved its sixth consecutive budget surplus—some $298 million, up from $196 million in the prior year—according to the University’s annual financial report for the fiscal period ended June 30, 2019, published in late October. The surpluses …
Issue: January-February 2020
News from the HAA
Election Results The members of the Board of Overseers have elected Thomas S. Williams Jr. '68 their new president. He succeeds Richard E. Oldenburg '54. This year, 32,556 alumni, representing 15.8 percent of eligible voters, castballots in the annual …
Issue: July-August 2002
Change Agent
With degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Yale, years as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and a post at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the Carter era, William Drayton '65 had the world in his palm. Rather than follow any one of those …
Issue: March-April 2002
Helping Hands
“I got punched in the head an hour ago,” says Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, M.D. ’24 (known as Waokiya Mani in the Dakota language and Machil in the Yaqui language). “I knew it was going to happen at some point, and today was the first day I got rocked.” He’s …
Issue: May-June 2023
Off the Shelf
Democracy and Imperialism: Irving Babbitt and Warlike Democracies, by William S. Smith (University of Michigan, $70). Harvard, widely known as a liberal bastion, was not always and is not only so. Smith, managing director of Catholic University’s Center …
Issue: November-December 2019
The Dark Side of Daylight Saving
Karin Johnson ’99 was paying close attention earlier this month when the U.S. Senate voted on the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent starting next year. When senators approved the bill—to the cheers of many Americans …