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Environmental Action
The University will cut its greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent during the next eight years, President Drew Faust vowed in a July 8 announcement. Harvard had already committed to ambitious environmental goals for the new Allston campus (see “ Growing …
Issue: September-October 2008
At Home with Harvard: Library Treasures
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate change, racial justice, movies and …
“A Choice Not to Deal with Original Sin”
Speaking at Harvard Law School’s 2022 Class Day ceremonies on Wednesday, May 25, former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84, said that justice—the fight for freedom—is something each generation must defend. She reminded the audience that …
Parks for Tomorrow
In 2009 , Bas Smets walked across an old industrial plaza in Arles, France. Entirely concrete, the space posed a problem. The area was being transformed into a large art complex, but in the intense summer sun, the ground reflected the heat, doubly baking …
Issue: July-August 2024
Steeped
Americans sipping foamy sweet chai lattes from Starbucks or Dunkin’ probably don’t think of the tea tree originally discovered in Southeast Asia. They don’t picture the earliest spring leaves of the Camellia sinensis var . sinensis , hand-picked in the …
Issue: March-April 2022
Brevia
Speakers of Note The speaker at the Commencement afternoon exercises, on May 25, will be Mark Zuckerberg ’06, co-founder and CEO of Facebook. His appearance among the honorands and at the lectern follows by a decade that of Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. …
Issue: May-June 2017
Football: Harvard 31- Penn 28
In the 151 years of Harvard football there have been many players who have stepped into the breach to rescue the Crimson. (Think Frank Kenneth Champi ’69, “Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29.”) Now the name of Charles P. DePrima ’25 must be added to the annals. On …
Cultivating Friendships with Trees
Tributes to trees, in form and metaphor, have appeared in art, music and poetry for millennia. “And this our life, exempt from public haunt,/Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,/Sermons in stones, and good in everything,” wrote …
Issue: September-October 2024
Brevia
The University Brevia PH.D. MAGIC: Illustration by Rick Stromoski Each Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin features "BackTalk," a chance for students to blow off steam, humorously and anonymously, in response to an off-the-wall question. In …
"Lots of Reasonable 99c Lunches"
Found in this magazine’s basement: a sheaf of pages listing Cambridge and Boston restaurants from a guide for students that evidently dates from the early 1960s. Here are the greasy-spoons: Waldorf, Hayes-Bickford’s, Hazen’s, and Albiani’s. Old …
Issue: May-June 2006
On Commencements
Harvard’s Commencement guest speakers have delivered some memorable addresses, (and forgettable ones). But the oration at the Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises, on the Tuesday morning before degrees are conferred on Thursday, sets an intellectual tone for …
Issue: May-June 2022
Richard Evans Schultes
Born into humble circumstances in East Boston in 1915, Richard Evans Schultes ’37, Ph.D. ’41, was a most unlikely candidate to become the archetypal Amazon explorer, the leading authority on mind-altering plants and fungi, and a “founding father” of …
Issue: July-August 2022
How Deforestation Damages Even the Rainforests That Survive It
Last summer —seemingly a lifetime ago—the news was dominated by reports of the escalation of human-created fires in the Amazon rainforest. For many readers, the Amazon fires brought awareness not just of the immense suffering deforestation inflicts on …
The Philosopher of the Real World
When Susanna Siegel was a teenager, two political events shook her world. One was the Nicaraguan Revolution. As a 15-year-old living in Ithaca, New York, she traveled to Managua in 1985 to join the youth brigades supporting the Sandinista movement. It was …
Issue: January-February 2024
“A Grinding War”
During a discussion on campus Thursday evening, Marie Yovanovitch, the American ambassador to Ukraine from 2016 to 2019, advocated strongly for continued U.S. military assistance in the Ukrainian war effort and said that in retrospect, the United States …