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How to Care for Your Grandfather's Teddy Bear
… Harvard offers a new on-line resource for anyone who has stuff worth … of one's wedding; or those fading newspaper accounts of the embezzler ancestor who fled to Canada to dig for gold … in attics or basements, or near water sources like washing machines or bathrooms. Think about what's in the room above …
Issue: September-October 2003
The Stable Door
… In the era of the robbery, night watchmen at the Fogg and the campus … A guy wants a painting up on the wall that says, 'In Memory of Dear Mother Mabel'; he doesn't want his money to go to a …
Reconfiguring the Curriculum
… Much work on refashioning the undergraduate curriculum remains for the next academic year, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded its spring meetings by … their concentrations, and new options for minor fields of study, encouraging them to investigate diverse …
Issue: July-August 2006
Stealing the Catalog along with the Coins
… "Incredible as it seems to the uninitiated, there was no overall inventory of the University coins," wrote Professor George M.A. Hanfmann in an August 1974 report to …
Devoted to Debt
… In the first quarter of 2011, the average American household carried $115,000 of mortgage, credit-card, and other forms of debt—a huge … “is America, and we can choose together to submit to it, or rise to its challenges, making what we will of its …
Issue: July-August 2011
The Speeches 2022
… “Save a Seat for Others” During his welcoming remarks at the 371st … very inconvenient happens when you combine a nation’s worth of graduations with a global supply-chain shortage. There … life. Take advantage of these opportunities when they arise. Whatever you do with your Harvard education, please be …
Issue: July-August 2022
The Family Silver
… One could call these ceremonial spoons the “family silver of Northwest … says Bill Holm, curator emeritus at the Burke Museum of Indian Art in Seattle. “Our families’ histories are …
Issue: July-August 2007
Harvard Reports Budget Surplus of $77 Million
… For the third year in a row, Harvard reported a modest budget … expenses by $77 million, up from last year’s surplus of $62 million, according to its annual financial report , … operations , continue to make up the single largest source of operating revenue. Distributions increased 7 percent from …
The Pay Problem
… Concerns about the compensation of chief executive officers and other top … their immediate subordinates. Finally, it is clear that the rise in executive pay contributes to the skewing of income …
Issue: May-June 2010
The 40 Percent Solution
… was hurriedly emptied over spring recess in response to the coronavirus, an oddly reconfigured community will … term. The College announced on July 6 that only 40 percent of enrolled students would be in residence for the beginning … and tracing, considering the implications of the current crises for FAS’s next five years of operation, coping with …
Issue: September-October 2020
Vote Now
… choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots should … are announced at the HAA’s annual meeting, on the afternoon of Commencement day, June 4. All Harvard degree-holders, … and communications, IBM Centennial, International Business Machines Corporation. John Trasvina ’80, Los Angeles. …
Issue: March-April 2009
Reimagining Cabot Library and the Science Center Common Spaces
… Prior to its redesign , the Cabot Science Library had opaque windows, uninviting first and second floors, and a lack of room for students needing to spend any meaningful amount of time there. Last month, the library re-opened with an …
Deconstructing the College Deanship
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean William C. Kirby is creating a new … undergraduate life at Harvard. He expects to "reorganize the offices of the dean of undergraduate education and the dean …
Issue: May-June 2003
Fresh Views of Boston
… Terri Evans has a soft spot for Millennium Tower. The 60-story residential skyscraper, opened last year in … Crossing, is “slim and graceful and conveys a sense of almost floating in the sky.” Yet she and other volunteer …
Issue: September-October 2017
The Twenty-First-Century Student
… incoming freshmen did not receive Harvard e-mail addresses. The computer-science concentration was just five years old. Less than 9 percent of students reported significant work, study, or extended … phones, computers, and the Internet for granted, giving rise to new worries: House masters and tutors fret that …
Issue: September-October 2011