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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
All About the Food
At lunchtime , Law of Pasta owner Avery Perry darts around his Boston Public Market shop, stopping just long enough to explain himself: “They call me the ‘bad boy of pasta,’” he says, gesturing to cases of freshly extruded noodles, “because I do semolina …
Issue: September-October 2019
Further Financial Fallout
Understandably , the Harvard University Financial Report for fiscal year 2009, published in mid October, is dominated by the plunge in value of the endowment (see “$11 Billion Less,” November-December 2009, page 50). But it also documents previously …
Issue: January-February 2010
Endowment Value Declines 29.5% as Investment Return Is Negative 27.3%
Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported today that the University’s endowment was valued at $26.0 billion as of June 30—29.5 percent less than the record $36.9 billion reported for the prior fiscal year. That result reflects a negative 27.3 percent …
Predicting the Future of China's Rise
Former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers lived up to his billing as a voice of opposition Wednesday evening at a Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) discussion on China’s rise as an economic power and its rivalry with the United States. Timed to the Beijing …
A Hard Road
In hoping to rebound from an uncharacteristically mediocre 5-5 record in 2017, coach Tim Murphy put forth a multi-pronged plan for the 2018 Harvard football season, the Crimson’s 145th. Its major elements: First, bolster his offensive and defensive lines. …
Issue: November-December 2018
The Will of the Donor
As an intern at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in the summer of 2023, I spent my days in a sun-drenched Tuscan villa, studying in the wood-paneled library and sharing homemade Italian lunches paired with Harvard-label wine. Fresh focaccia was served every …
Issue: November-December 2024
“I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak”
For decades , Laurie Anderson dreamed of having a late-night radio show. She wanted to reach people during that period of time when “most of the listeners are half-asleep or trying to get back to sleep, a time when reality and dreams just sort of merge …
“The Truth Shall Set You Free”
The Graduate School of Education’s Convocation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard featured an address by John Silvanus Wilson Jr., M.T.S. ’81, Ed.M. ’82, Ed.D. ’85, on the topic of freedom, from its deep connections to education, to the …
“Inventur” Revisits Postwar Germany
Entering Inventur: Art in Germany, 1943-1955, visitors first face a small, drab painting hanging alone on the wall. It depicts a Cubist heap of white doorways, gaping like a chorus of ghostly mouths, the lintels heaped like bones. Fallen Fa ç ades (Berlin …
Harvard President Drew Faust to Step Down in 2018
Drew Gilpin Faust, who assumed office as Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on July 1, 2007 , announced today that she would conclude her service at the end of the next academic year, June 30, 2018. Her planned retirement is a logical transition: The date …
What a Human Should Be
“We are gathering experience, ” Bauhaus workshop master Josef Albers told his students, as if art education were similar to apple-picking. “It is not an attempt to fill museums.” Between 1923 and 1933, Albers taught the Bauhaus’s introductory course, …
Issue: March-April 2019
A Long Road
In August 2012, Tommy Amaker welcomed an unusual visitor to Lavietes Pavilion: Kentucky men’s basketball coach John Calipari. It was mostly a social call; Calipari was in town to visit his daughter. He dropped by practice as the Crimson prepared for a …
Football 2017: Harvard 3, Yale 24
Not our day. Not our year. On Saturday at the Yale Bowl, Harvard went to extreme lengths to prove that you can’t win if you can’t score. In the 134th playing of The Game, the Crimson—partly undone by two slippery option pitches—were humbled by the …