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Finding the Descendants of Enslavement
“This work is doable. The family structures of the Harvard-affiliated slaves may be currently unknown, but they are not unknowable.” That was the message this week from Richard Cellini, director of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, which in recent …
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
A Faculty Meeting “Unlike Any Other”
The president in an open-collared shirt and pullover. The dean of the College sporting headphones. A peak of 271 participants logged in ( a huge number for a faculty meeting )—perhaps eager to see colleagues, hear more about the dismal University …
Natalie Portman ’03: “Your Inexperience Is an Asset”
Watching her four-year-old son, Aleph, play a baseball arcade game a few weeks ago, actress Natalie Portman was already picturing him as a major-league player, admiring his sharp aim and focus. But as he gleefully turned in his tickets for a tiny blue …
This Old (Red) House
For most of its 202-year history, the cottage at 98 Winthrop Street has been a private residence. A year ago, Paul Overgaag, owner of the now defunct Giannino in the Charles Hotel courtyard, turned the crimson clapboard home into a notable new dining …
Issue: July-August 2004
The Senior Alumni
Evelyn Richmond ’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Theodore R. Barnett ’41, of Stowe, Vermont, were the oldest Radcliffe and Harvard alumni present on Commencement Day. For Richmond, 97, it was a distinction she also enjoyed three years ago (see …
Issue: July-August 2018
Near Miss in the NCAA
A furious comeback by the Harvard men’s basketball team fell short Thursday evening as the Crimson lost to the heavily favored North Carolina Tar Heels 67-65 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson trailed by 16 points with just over 15 …
Is Harvard Campus Conversation Constrained?
At Harvard, there are research areas that can’t be investigated, subjects that can’t be broached in public, and ideas that can’t be discussed in a classroom. So say a group of Harvard professors, now more than 120 strong, who have formed a Council on …
Quantum SCIENCE Quarters
Interior demolition work proceeded during the summer at 60 Oxford Street, formerly a Harvard computer facility, as it is completely renovated into the new home for the quantum science and engineering doctoral program, approved in 2021 (see …
Issue: September-October 2022
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 …
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 …
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 …
“Service Starts with Summer”
During his inaugural address last October, President Lawrence S. Bacow advanced one specific, programmatic initiative. Invoking history, he said, “Since Harvard’s founding in 1636, the people educated here have responded patriotically to the call to …
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 …
Allston Agonistes
As Boston’s new mayor, Michelle Wu ’07, J.D. ’12, pursues her administration’s policies, Harvard and a recently formed Allston citizen’s group have each sent her letters, outlining competing visions for the development of the University’s 127 acres of …