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Back to the Gridiron
… When last we glimpsed the Harvard football team and its supporters, it was … and they were wandering stunned and spent around the floor of the Yale Bowl following the Crimson’s ghastly … defeat in the program’s history and the denouement of a godforsaken 4-6 season. At the time, few could envision …
Issue: September-October 2021
The Aging Brain
… as a way to understand normal brain functions. But doing the opposite also works. A group of researchers at Harvard recently looked at the effects of aging on healthy people’s brains and found that as we get …
Issue: May-June 2008
50 Years of Social Studies
… In 1960, the idea that Harvard undergraduates could concentrate in a … science, sociology, history, and philosophy, instead of choosing just one of those disciplines, was revolutionary. Social studies (the …
Issue: November-December 2010
The Long View
… From its very first day , the Harvard College class of 1950 has been remarkable. Its … Harvey '71, M.B.A. '74. Baltimore. Chair and CEO, The Enterprise Foundation. Barbara J. Wu, Ph.D. '81; A.B. '75 Smith …
Harvard University’s 372nd Commencement Exercises
… Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still observed … exercises this spring. Given the increasing number of people planning to attend, we ask that interested readers … of the ceremony, the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: March-April 2023
A Sweeping Exhibit Spans 250 Years of Japanese Art
… both a time and a place,” said curator Rachel Saunders, at the start of a preview tour of “Painting Edo,” which opens today as the largest special …
The MCZ at 150
… By 1856, Swiss naturalist and Harvard professor Louis Agassiz had amassed all the necessities for a new museum on campus. The funds had been charmed out of the coffers of wealthy Bostonians. The collections, …
Cambridge 02138
… For instance, taxing "carried interest" as capital rather than as labor income should be reversed. Second, labor savings of as much as 100 to 1 virtually mandated production … to see no reference to the impending risk of sea-level rise. Some Houses are only 9 or 10 feet above current mean …
Issue: November-December 2012
The Childcare Crisis
… Siegel Muncey, Ed.M. ’05, met through a mutual friend when they were both pregnant. “Our babies were born within just a couple days of each other,” Kennedy says, “and like so many working … their day jobs to establish Neighborhood Villages , a nonprofit organization that advocates for solutions to the …
Prenatal Competition?
… Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women between the ages of 15 … plants and mammalian pregnancies, genetic conflict arises from the competing interests of maternal and paternal …
Issue: September-October 2006
Financial Fitness
… Harvard’s financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, released in October, … and Harvard’s leaders have now accomplished a full decade of Crimson black ink. Harvard Management Company (HMC), … the endowment assets, realized a net 2.9 percent rate of return, improving upon the negative 1.8 percent return in …
Issue: January-February 2024
The Son Also Rises
… that what he really wanted to do was learn to perform the Mexican “roots” music he loved so much. Instead of pursuing the academic career he seemed destined for, the … folk music. … 1531 … 8468 … 1505 … 1507 … The Son Also Rises … article …
Issue: November-December 2009
John Lithgow on the Arts, and Life
… John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, made some extended remarks on the arts, including personal reflections on his own … experiences with visual arts, at the first meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences' Commission on Humanities and Social …
Off the Shelf
… Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence , by … Langguth 55 (Simon & Schuster, $30). This gripping history of the war that finally established the nations permanence, …
Issue: November-December 2006
From the Archives: The Talent for Aging Well
… burdensome, especially for those who are fortunate, since the 2017 round of tax cuts. Aging has become inevitable, too … exceptionally high intelligence. (The three projects comprise the Study of Adult Development, which Vaillant directs, …