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Mount Laurel and Climate Change
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, ‘This is mine,’ and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.” So argued Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1754. And so bemoans anyone who …
Issue: November-December 2019
Final-Club Complications
As members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) prepare to meet this afternoon to vote on a motion that opposes the College’s proposed sanctions on students who join single-gender social organizations not officially recognized by the College (the …
"Effective Treatment Everywhere"
Last fall, President Lawrence S. Bacow and University of Michigan president Mark S. Schlissel announced a research and public-policy partnership between the two institutions focusing on the issues of poverty and the opioids crisis . On May 10, the …
Rudolph Tanzi: What Can People Do To Maintain Brain Health As They Age?
What Can People Do To Maintain Brain Health As They Age? Harvard Medical School professor of neurology Rudolph Tanzi discusses how lifestyle choices can help maintain brain health during a person’s lifespan. Topics include Alzheimer’s disease and …
Harvard Business School’s $1-Billion Campaign
In the transformed Shad gymnasium, Harvard Business School (HBS) dean Nitin Nohria formally launched its $1-billion capital campaign on Friday evening, April 25: a day that began as another in a series of cool, tardy spring mornings (when the exhortation …
Labor, Interrupted
In May 2003 came the joyous birth of Prairie Cummings Resch, first child of Zoe Cummings Resch ’92. All had gone according to plan: Resch lay down on a surgical table. An anesthesiologist inserted an analgesic into her spine, and she became impervious to …
Issue: November-December 2012
Next Man Up
Since last November 23, when Harvard thrashed Yale, 34-7, in New Haven to cap a 9-1 season and earn a share of the Ivy football championship (its fifteenth), the offseason had been tumultuous, for football and the Harvard program. The National Football …
Issue: November-December 2014
Harvard Corporation Revises Its “Composition, Structure, and Practices”
The Harvard Corporation’s self-review of its operations and organization— begun in 2009 and first disclosed to the community that December 15 in remarks by President Drew Faust to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)—has culminated in a series of …
Family Spirit, Wetly
Cap and gown : check. Poncho, coat (if available), gloves, scarf, hat (ditto): check. In 2010, when Harvard’s deciders moved Commencement forward from early June, they focused on the delights of late May (and were rewarded with 92-degree heat midweek, …
Issue: July-August 2017
Bitter Ending
If any doubt remained that the favored Harvard football team would be in for a real bulldogfight against Yale in the 133rd edition of The Game on November 19 at Harvard Stadium, it vanished with the second-half kickoff. The score was 7-7 and the Crimson …
Issue: January-February 2017
The Elephant in the Room: Sports and Sexism
Last Friday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, an alumni panel discussion on women in sports—long-planned, and yet suddenly of the moment—opened with what moderator Janet Rich-Edwards ’84 called “the elephant in the room”: the recent revelations that the …
John Stilgoe on “Acute Observation”
On a Tuesday in late July, as the last few students filter in from the evening swelter to a basement classroom in the Carpenter Center, John Stilgoe, the Orchard professor in the history of landscape—and as unique a figure as there is on the Harvard …
Teach a Man to Fish
Having spent the last days of the groundfishing season on the open ocean east of Cape Cod, Russell Sherman ’71 chugged into Gloucester Harbor in April and docked his Lady Jane at the Jodrey State Fish Pier. Running the 72-foot trawler around the clock, he …
Issue: July-August 2016
Prosperity and Equality
In a populist presidential election year pervaded by economic discontents—lagging middle-class incomes, rising inequality, and the purported workforce displacements caused by immigrants, globalization, and free-trade agreements—the Radcliffe Institute …
Brevia
I Tatti’s Leadership Transition Dante scholar Lino Pertile —Pescosolido professor of Romance languages and literatures, and the retiring Eliot House master—has been appointed director of Villa I Tatti, the University’s Center for Italian Renaissance …
Issue: March-April 2010