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Clergy Roar like Lions
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Caroline Healey Dall (1822-1912) was a transcendentalist, early feminist, reformer, and sometime attendee at Harvard Commencements. Her diary was published last fall: Daughter of Boston: …
Issue: July-August 2006
Football: Harvard 31-Dartmouth 27
On a weekend during which we turned the clock back, the Dartmouth football team desperately attempted to turn it back exactly five years, to November 2, 2019. At Harvard Stadium on that benighted Saturday, the Big Green successfully employed a Hail Mary …
Fred Ho ’79 to Receive Harvard Arts Medal
Chinese-American jazz saxophonist, composer, writer, and self-described “radical, revolutionary artist” Fred Ho '79 will receive a Harvard Arts Medal on November 13, an unusual conferral of such an honor, which is typically made in the spring at Arts …
Divestment Digest
As reported, briefly, in the March-April issue, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted on February 4 in favor of a motion calling on the Corporation to instruct Harvard Management Company to shed investments in future fossil-fuel production and to …
Issue: May-June 2020
Michael Mina: Why do we still need rapid tests?
Why do we still need rapid tests? Epidemiologist and immunologist Michael Mina discusses the use of rapid tests as public health tools. Topics include using rapid tests to protect gatherings of friends and family; the differences between rapid tests …
Putting the Tea Party in Perspective
The modern Tea Party , like other political movements before it, self-identifies with the spirit that moved eighteenth-century Bostonians to cast imported tea into Boston harbor. In a witty account of the uses and abuses of history—mostly for political …
Moveable Feast
As noted elsewhere in this issue , 2022 will go down in Harvard annals as the year the institution broke a long tradition and altered the format of Commencement Day. Graduation exercises will continue to take place on a Thursday in late May, but the …
Issue: July-August 2022
Penny Pritzker Gives $100 Million for New Economics Facility
Penny Pritzker ’81, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2018, has made a $100-million commitment to build a new home for the economics department, the University announced today. Beyond satisfying a long-term need for the economics faculty, the gift …
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Disinformation In my opinion, much of the messaging by Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and, yes, President Trump, regarding the 2020 election was both shameful and a good example for the case against misinformation and the role of the internet in its …
Issue: September-October 2021
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Freezes Faculty Hiring
As reported, the University’s major professional schools have begun outlining their immediate responses to the coronavirus-related challenges to their finances and operations. Now, Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has …
Reviving Black Classical Music
In the mid-1850s, a blind, enslaved boy sat down at his owner’s piano in Columbus, Georgia. After mimicking the pieces he’d heard others play, “Blind Tom” Wiggins started composing classical music. A few years later, when Wiggins was eight, his owner …
Issue: November-December 2023
$6 Billion-Plus
Update, October 21, 2015, 12:30 p.m. After this article was reported, two more schools provided data on the status of their campaign fundraising. The Harvard Kennedy School reported securing gifts totaling $432 million (toward a $500-million goal) as of …
Issue: November-December 2015
Harvard Election Results
The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association were announced this afternoon, as part of Commencement week. The news capped a competitive campaign season , in which two slates of candidates …
A Report on the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) convened in University Hall on Tuesday, February 7, its first meeting of the spring term, with discussion of the undergraduate curriculum as the chief item on its agenda. Instead, discussion focused principally on …
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A Note to Readers The “7 Ware Street” column does not appear in this issue, which is somewhat shorter than usual, given continuing constraints on our advertising partners. We decided it was important to make space available for more of your letters to the …
Issue: January-February 2021