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The (Other) Yard
… When I first came to Harvard , the word "Radcliffe" evoked little more than confusion and … When friends and family spotted the name in the barrage of Harvard pamphlets and paraphernalia I received the summer … what Radcliffe was. Compounding my ignorance was a bit of defensiveness: I was attending Harvard and I could do …
And the Winners Are...
… The names of the newly elected members of the Board of Overseers and …
Issue: July-August 2008
26 Ways to Get into Harvard
… Quick trivia quiz. What do these names have in common: Bradstreet, Bacon, Dexter, … poet Anne Bradstreet; the Robert Bacon or Class of 1880 Gate, monumental and unused, just south of Lamont; … who would shape much of Harvard’s and the nation’s rise to international prominence in the next few decades. …
Issue: July-August 2016
Off the Shelf
… A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, by Lizabeth Cohen, Jones professor of American studies (Knopf, $32.50). How did mass …
Issue: January-February 2003
A Life of Adventure and Delight
… “‘Anita sometimes reads the newspapers,’ Ma said, and then became quiet at the absurdity of her words,” writes author Akhil Sharma, J.D. ’98, in “If … woman,” Sharma writes in “Surrounded by Sleep.” “It surprised him that you couldn’t tell, looking at her, that she …
A “Pirates of Penzance” Party
… Theatergoers on their way into the Loeb Drama Center’s … already in progress before the opening curtain: the cast of the innovative production of The Pirates of Penzance at the ART wearing leis, shorts, …
Off the Shelf
… The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine , translated by Norman R. Shapiro ’51, Ph.D. ’58 (University of Illinois, $80 cloth, $25 paper). The Wesleyan professor—who commutes from Cambridge and …
Issue: January-February 2008
From the Archives: The Millennial Class
… Later today, the nearly 40,000 applicants to Harvard College’s class of 2021 will receive their decisions. Only a small fraction … friends who have overheard me belting out the lyrics to "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof while in the shower. …
News from the HAA
… As classes resumed in Cambridge, alumni on both sides of the Atlantic were gearing up for the "Harvard in Europe" … London. The event, to be held November 14 and 15, is part of the Harvard Alumni Association's Global Series. President …
Issue: November-December 2003
Legal Legroom
… Way back in 1998, a committee of faculty and administrators at Harvard Law School (HLS) began work on strategic planning for the school’s future needs, a task linking prospective … parking facility, above which the new building will rise in three years’ time. The south corner of the proposed …
Issue: January-February 2007
Shielding the Goal
… position,” says Katie Shields ’06, who has tended goal for the Harvard women’s soccer team since her freshman year. “All summer [of 2005] I worked with goalkeepers at a soccer camp, and they are the craziest collection of athletes you can imagine. Basically, you’re putting your …
Issue: September-October 2005
The Irresistible Allison Feaster
… When the clock ran out on the Boston Celtics’ first game against the Brooklyn Nets in last season’s NBA playoffs—a chaotic, glorious, preposterous win that would help … how they were going to win, how they were going to surprise everyone. And then they did. “Like, no doubt—from the …
Issue: November-December 2022
Rebelling and Expelling
… year to graduate: as a pandemic worsened, seniors left professors and friends behind and dealt with a graduation ceremony held online. At least they got degrees. Shortly before the graduation of the class of 1823, 43 of 70 students were expelled, a …
Issue: September-October 2020
The President on the Podium
… his presidency, Neil L. Rudenstine spoke on many hundreds of occasions, from large, public gatherings, like Commencement afternoon addresses and … services for singular scholars and steadfast supporters of Harvard. His topics ranged from the opportunities for …
Climate-Solutions Investments Near 1 Percent of Endowment Assets
… solutions”—such as carbon-capture and sequestration enterprises—are approaching 1 percent of total endowment assets, and growing rapidly. HMC, which oversees investment of endowment and other University financial assets, issued its second annual …