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Radcliffe Celebrates 25
When Mary Ingraham Bunting-Smith became president of Radcliffe College in 1960, she sought to combat what she called “a national climate of unexpectation” surrounding women’s education. As part of that mission, she created the Radcliffe Institute for …
Out with the Sake, in with the Ale
A colleague once faulted Stephen Owen for using the word "flagon" in his translation of a Tang dynasty text. Standard translations parsed the character in question as "cup" and the liquid it held as wine, or sake. But the text at issue describes killing …
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 2
On the afternoon of September 25, President Drew Faust hosted a discussion on "Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts," before a full house in Sanders Theatre and a webcast audience. (An archive of the webcast is available …
Regearing Ph.D. Education
The acronymically burdened final report of the GAGE working group (GSAS Admissions and Graduate Education), released early in the fall semester, is in fact a vigorous and urgent overview of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ intellectually central Ph.D. …
Issue: January-February 2024
Pioneer Valley Bounty
For Milwaukee chef and restaurateur Sanford D’Amato, the move to Massachusetts’s Pioneer Valley turned not on the providential bite of an apple, but of a ridiculously juicy peach. It was in 2007, when he and his wife Angie were visiting friends who …
Issue: July-August 2024
Parenting Digital Kids
When U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy ’98 got his first cell phone in 2001, the ability to make calls anytime, anywhere gave him a “feeling of freedom.” Then he bought a headset. When calling someone no longer required him to hold the phone up to his …
Snuggling Up in the Square
Twinkling lights, charming storefronts, and cozy restaurants ready with something succulent to warm you up. Whether you’re gathering with friends over dinner or shopping for everyone on your list, the neighborhood delivers with enchantment, comfort, and …
Issue: November-December 2023
Developing Dads
Dads are everywhere in our society. They are fundamental to many families and make excellent fodder for humor—I love Dad jokes. But becoming a biological father and “fathering” are two distinct undertakings. Paternal investment, when fathers provide …
Issue: May-June 2024
Smooth Start
Leaders of this and other campuses wracked by turmoil during the 2023-2024 academic year following the Hamas attack on Israel and resulting war naturally approached this fall term warily. Would pro-Palestinian protestors again set up encampments, or …
Issue: November-December 2024
Harvard Square Meals—and Beyond
Making a seasonal visit to Cambridge—for Commencement Week, alumni reunions, or just to check out the old stomping grounds? Here’s a select list of cafés and restaurants favored by Harvard Magazine staffers offering a diversity of settings and flavors. …
Issue: May-June 2024
A Grand Time
Three years ago, Luella Kramer's friends were shaking their heads. "They all thought I'd lost my mind," the retired nurse recalls, laughing. "They said they wouldn't want the responsibility. They wondered how I could risk it." What Kramer, of Holden, …
Issue: November-December 2003
Cambridge 02138
(Coach) Murphy Time Harvard Magazine does a grave disservice glorifying football with a cover story on Tim Murphy ( “Murphy Time,” November-December 2015, page 35). With overwhelming medical evidence that football causes chronic brain damage, how can …
Issue: January-February 2016
President Garber’s Agenda
During a conversation in his Massachusetts Hall office on a remarkably balmy Halloween afternoon, President Alan M. Garber was expansive about his academic aspirations for the University he has led on an interim basis since last January , and as president …
“Out of the Ashes”
In the middle of Shin Sang-ok’s 1958 film The Flower in Hell , a Korean woman dances for a group of American soldiers on a U.S. Army base in Seoul. Behind her, a band plays a cheery mambo. The camera seems to adopt the gaze of the soldiers, panning down …
Maria Ressa to Address Harvard Graduates
Maria Ressa , who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 (with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov) for her brave, independent news coverage of her native Philippines, will be the honored guest speaker at Harvard’s 373 rd Commencement exercises, scheduled for …