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Summer Touchups In addition to the previously reported sprucing-up of Massachusetts Hall’s systems ( “Building Unabated,” May-June, page 24), the Stadium’s concrete walls and steps underwent repairs, beginning this spring, that are scheduled to conclude …
Issue: July-August 2018
Why Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s
London cabbies are famous for knowing their way around their city’s maze of streets. To obtain a taxi license in London, drivers must pass a legendary test requiring them to memorize the names and locations of 25,000 streets, as well as landmarks and …
Issue: May-June 2025
Most Harvard Staff Will Be Remote through June 30
Most of Harvard’s faculty and staff members will continue working remotely through June 30, 2021, executive vice president Katie Lapp announced in an email to University employees today. While Harvard has successfully limited the spread of COVID-19 on …
The Senior Marshals
The senior marshals , looking ahead to Commencement 2005, are: (clockwise from top left) first marshal Caleb Franklin, of Leverett House and Los Angeles; Sheria Smith, of Winthrop House and Gary, Indiana; Duncan Graham Wells, of Leverett House and Chevy …
Issue: May-June 2005
Thrice Titled
Three minutes and 36 seconds had elapsed in the 132nd Harvard-Yale game at the Yale Bowl, and the good work of the first eight weeks of the 2015 season was unraveling. The Crimson, which the previous week had lost to Penn (Harvard’s first defeat in 23 …
Issue: January-February 2016
Silent Study-Ins
Last December , approximately 100 pro-Palestine students filed into Widener Library’s Loker Reading Room, taped flyers to the back of their laptops, and read for an hour. This “study-in,” billed as “silent” and “non-disruptive” by the student organizers, …
A Presidency’s Early End
After five years of frequent controversy on matters of fundamental academic and intellectual substance, and the style in which those issues were pursued, the Harvard presidency of Lawrence H. Summers will end on June 30. Throughout his administration, …
Issue: May-June 2006
Endowment Insights
Last February , three Republican members of Congress sent a questionnaire to the 56 private universities and colleges with endowments valued at $1 billion or more, seeking information about those endowments, investments, financial aid, and financial …
Issue: July-August 2016
The State of the Libraries
Editor's note: Pforzheimer University Professor Robert Darnton, the Harvard University Librarian since 2007, is retiring at the end of the academic year . This is the text of his remarks at a farewell celebration with members of the library community and …
Martha Tedeschi to Lead Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums has named Martha Tedeschi its new Cabot director, effective July 2016. She succeeds Thomas W. Lentz, Ph.D. ’85, who left last July. Tedeschi has spent her entire professional career at the Art Institute of Chicago, arriving as an …
Will Harvard’s Campus Reopen for Fall?
As universities nationwide consider the options for reopening campuses this fall in light of the coronavirus pandemic, Alan M. Garber, the provost—who is a physician and medical scholar—disseminated a message this afternoon, outlining the considerations …
New Fellows
Joining the editorial staff this fall as the 2019-2020 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows are seniors Julie Chung and Drew Pendergrass. They will contribute in print and online throughout the academic year, taking turns writing the …
Issue: September-October 2019
The Events of the Week
The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year includes addresses by President Lawrence H. Summers and actor John A. Lithgow ’67. For updated schedules, visit www.harvardmagazine.com or www.commencementoffice.harvard.edu . …
Issue: May-June 2005
Bodies in Motion
Grooving , diving, dancing, and flipping, the bodies caught in gravity-defying motion in New Formations feel breathtakingly alive. The show, at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park through March 13, reflects on the aesthetic nature of physicality …
Issue: January-February 2023
Overseers’ Overhaul
On August 21, the University announced the results of the pandemic-delayed 2020 voting for members of the Board of Overseers. Alumni elected Raphael William Bostic and Tracy K. Smith: two of the eight candidates put forward by the Harvard Alumni …
Issue: November-December 2020