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A Life in Harmonica
It was the night before a final exam and Scott Albert Johnson ’92 had some studying to do. Only he wasn’t studying. A suitemate who came to ask Johnson a question heard through the door an instructional cassette tape and a small, reedy instrument. “What …
Issue: May-June 2021
S. Allen Counter Has Died
S. Allen Counter has died after a brief illness. Counter was the inaugural and longtime director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations , and was a part-time professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. His speech at the Phi …
A New Chapter for Harvard Arts
On Wednesday evening, during the Arts First festival’s opening event, Interim President Alan M. Garber paused the proceedings briefly to “acknowledge someone whose generosity of time and talent has shaped and altered forever the lives of countless …
Juneteenth Is Now a University Holiday
Harvard will be closed on Juneteenth—the holiday celebrated on June 19 marking the day in 1865 that enslaved African Americans in Texas were told that they were free—University president Lawrence Bacow announced in an email on Tuesday. “All faculty and …
Brevia
Cash Conservation Crimson Style The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative aims both to attract applicants and to enroll more students from modest economic circumstances. But what happens when they land in pricey Cambridge? This funky Shoestring Strategies for …
Issue: March-April 2006
The Faculty’s New Faces
Harvard’s faculty ranks have, gradually, become increasingly diverse. The intersection of lifetime tenured appointments; no mandatory retirement age; a decade of very constrained growth; and the long time it takes students to progress from studying a …
Issue: May-June 2019
Yesterday's News
1920 Thanks to the Endowment Fund campaign, President Lowell approves a new salary scale for faculty members under which full professors will receive $6,000 to $8,000 annually (an increase from the previous $4,000 to $5,500), and instructors will receive …
Blue, Yellow, Crimson
When he was president of Harvard, Neil L. Rudenstine made the case for universities’ role as custodians of human histories, cultures, and languages by telling a story from his service as provost at Princeton. In 1979, following the Islamic Revolution and …
Issue: May-June 2022
News Briefs
Term Themes President Drew Faust , speaking at Morning Prayers in Appleton Chapel, opened the 2015 fall term by talking about diversity—a frequent theme, sharpened in this case by a lawsuit attacking Harvard’s admissions practices that she characterized …
Issue: November-December 2015
No Sleepy Coastal Town
Settled in 1623, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is among the oldest cities in the United States. Historic buildings line the downtown streets, drawing visitors from near and far. Yet, increasingly, the reason to visit this coastal city, especially in the dead …
Issue: January-February 2024
Saving the News—and Democracy
How has the rise of the Internet and the decline of traditional publications affected the mainstream news industry–and the nation’s democracy? In her book Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech …
Publishing “The Harvard Advocate” Despite the Pandemic
The Harvard Advocate , a venerable publication now 154 years old, has published writers who have gone on to form much of the American literature we know in the twentieth century: poets John Ashbery ’49, Litt.D. ’01, Adrienne Rich ’51, Litt.D. ’90, Frank …
Quantum Leap for Engineering
Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) may soon become a full-fledged school of engineering, under a plan presented in May to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) by the division dean, Venkatesh Narayanamurti. During his …
Issue: July-August 2006
Could Regenerative Biology Work in Humans?
Chop a three-banded panther worm in half, and the head and tail will swirl around as if nothing had happened. Even more astonishing, a few days later, the halves will grow to become two complete and almost indistinguishable worms. Loeb associate professor …
Issue: July-August 2021
COOP Conversion
Taking advantage of pandemic-reduced customer traffic, the Harvard COOP has accelerated a renovation. It is consolidating books and merchandise (formerly in the Palmer Street annex) in its main store space, and eliminating its café; original architectural …
Issue: May-June 2021