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Rolling Along
Before the Harvard football team kicked off the school’s 142nd gridiron season, coach Tim Murphy’s toughest foe was a familiar one: his 2014 squad, one of the greatest in Crimson history. This year, after all, could not end any better than last year’s …
Issue: November-December 2015
Harvard’s Sexual-Assault Problem
On September 21 , Harvard released the results of a sexual-conduct survey conducted among its undergraduate, graduate, and professional-school students during the spring of 2015. The results—echoing those from the 26 other private and public Association …
Issue: November-December 2015
A Melting World
Photographs by David Arnold and H. Bradford Washburn The breathtaking aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers shot by H. Bradford Washburn Jr. ’33, A.M. ’60, L.H.D. ’75, during a lifetime of exploratory cartography captured a frozen wilderness that …
Issue: May-June 2006
Health Benefits to Cost 7 Percent More
As the annual employee enrollment in health and other benefits approaches, beneficiaries—and the University—will find themselves in familiar terrain as they look toward calendar year 2017: The health programs will look similar to those offered last year , …
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Immigrant Children Thank you for the enlightening article, “ From Neither Here Nor There ,” by Lydialyle Gibson, about the work of sociologist Roberto Gonzales (July-August, page 32). He shows us the heartbreak and ruin of so many lives, due to our …
Issue: September-October 2020
Speaking Volumes
A Houghton Library exhibition offers a selection of objects highlighting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Holdings at Yenching and Houghton Libraries (September 5-December 19). They include a Japanese scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s 1853 invasion of …
Issue: September-October 2023
Megan Marshall ’77 Wins Pulitzer for Biography
Megan Marshall ’77, RI ’07, has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for biography for Margaret Fuller: A New American Life , an account of the nineteenth-century Cambridge-born author, journalist, critic, and pioneering advocate of women’s rights who died with …
Ruth J. Simmons’s Harvard Graduation Address
A Time for Justice - A Time for Commitment Good day and congratulations to the Harvard University Class of 2021. It is a singular honor to be invited to address you on this important milestone occasion. To all completing their studies today, I offer my …
Sophomore Class Acquires Its Color
The class of 2015 was the center of attention yesterday, hosted in Memorial Church by the Harvard Alumni Association and the Undergraduate Council for the official presentation of the sophomores’ class color: blue. The ceremony restored a College …
Presidential Priorities
President Lawrence H. Summers distributed a letter to the Harvard community setting forth key issues and priorities for the academic year... President Lawrence H. Summers distributed a letter to the Harvard community setting forth key issues and …
Arts and Sciences Dean to Leave Office
Friday evening , January 27, was quiet, with the College dispersed for intercession. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby was returning from fundraising meetings in New York. President Lawrence H. Summers was at the World Economic …
Issue: March-April 2006
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 …
Capital Costs
The dimensions of Harvard’s current building boom—readily obvious to sidewalk superintendents along Memorial Drive at Western Avenue (graduate-student housing), across from Mather House (ditto), behind the Science Center (physical sciences and …
Issue: March-April 2006
Chapter & Verse: Who wrote...?
“Unmeasur’d space is the Lord”s habitation” (March-April 2020). Gayle Sawtell identified the “hymn-like chorus” as a work by Beethoven, composed in 1802 as the fourth in a cycle of six lieder (Opus 48) setting works by the German poet Christian Gellert. …
Issue: September-October 2021
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EVs " Who Should Drive an Electric Vehicle? ” (September-October, page 9) certainly took a glass-half-empty approach. To suggest that some people are better off burning gasoline if they care about the environment is dangerously short-sighted. How are …
Issue: November-December 2022