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Coming Out at Harvard
In 1920, a tribunal set up by University administrators interrogated students suspected of being gay. This inquisition led to eight expulsions and one suicide: Eugene R. Cummings ended his life just days before he was to receive his degree from the School …
Issue: November-December 2008
Commencement Confetti
Harvard Humor Self-deprecation was much in style this year. Dampening the spirits of already drenched seniors on Class Day, Ben S. Bernanke ’75, Federal Reserve Board chairman, recalled , “Our speaker in 1975 was Dick Gregory, the social critic and …
Issue: July-August 2008
Good-bye to HMI
There is a revolution afoot in international healthcare. Wealthy foreigners still come to the United States—to the Mayo Clinic, say, or to Harvard-affiliated hospitals in Boston—and pay full freight to be treated by the world’s top doctors. But changes in …
Issue: May-June 2008
Medicine Man
When Joseph B. Martin relinquishes the deanship of Harvard Medical School (HMS) at the end of the academic year—a decision announced on October 5—he will have put in place a new curriculum and the enormous New Research Building: tangible …
Issue: January-February 2007
Extracurriculars
Enjoy a range of offerings in and around Harvard Square this fall, from jazz bands and rowing competitions to a retrospective on Rembrandt and a Latino film festival. Seasonal Exhibitions Nature and Science Film Music Theater Libraries Seasonal An Evening …
Issue: September-October 2006
The Aging Enigma
Is aging necessary? Are the wrinkles and gray hair, weakening muscles, neurodegeneration, reduced cardiovascular function, and increased risk of cancer that afflict organisms toward the end of their lives inevitable? Or are these age-related changes part …
Issue: September-October 2005
Brevia
Professorships Stimulus The University on February 16 announced a $50-million Professorship Challenge Fund. Donors of $3 million qualify for a $1-million match—thus endowing a named professorship. Gifts of $1.5 million will be matched with $500,000, …
Issue: May-June 2006
Extracurriculars
Savor the sunshine and dabble in a variety of activities in and around Harvard Square this spring, ranging from a string of orchestral concerts and choral performances to acclaimed Russian films and exhibits of eclectic photomontages and vibrant …
Issue: March-April 2006
Botanical Bounty
Twenty miles from Boston, amid suburban sprawl, lies a 45-acre haven called Garden in the Woods. This “living museum” offers refreshing excursions through New England’s diverse flora and landscapes: visitors may roam woodland paths; explore a lily pond …
Issue: May-June 2019
Caves
Robert Creeley ’47 died on March 30, shortly after being named the poet for the Literary Exercises conducted annually by Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter during Commencement week. In his memory, at what would have been a fitting homecoming (Creeley was …
Issue: September-October 2005
Commencement Confetti
NOBLE BEAST Professional bomb-sniffer Tara, a two-year-old golden/lab/vizsla from Holland, made organizers breathe easier by checking out Memorial Hall just before the dinner there for honorands on June 8 (scallop-and-shrimp salad, then …
Issue: July-August 2005
Seeing Stars
“We’ll be able to see the beginning of the universe as we know it today,” says Charles Alcock , director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and professor of astronomy—imaging the radiation signatures from ancient galaxies billions of …
Issue: May-June 2013
Football 2018: Harvard 29, Penn 7
Harvard football coach Tim Murphy is fond of saying, “It’s what up front that counts.” On Saturday at Franklin Field against longtime Ivy rival Penn, there was much for Murphy to be fond of as his Crimson offensive and defensive lines—the latter pulling …
Football 2018: Harvard 52, Columbia 18
Because Saturday’s clash with Ivy League rival Columbia was the Harvard football team’s final game at Harvard Stadium this season, it was designated Senior Day, the afternoon on which the players from the class of 2019 were honored. (The final home game, …
The Devil and Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson ’ 27 (’30), B.Arch.’43—the celebrated architect of the former Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan’s Seagram Building, the AT&T Building (now 550 Madison Avenue), and his own Glass House residence—grew obsessed as an undergraduate by …
Issue: November-December 2018