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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 …
Off the Shelf
… by Katie Ives ’99 (Mountaineers Books, $26.95). Riffing on the infamous Riesenstein Hoax (about an unscaleable, indeed imaginary, set of peaks in British Columbia), and drawing on her … won’t be a snap of the fingers, insofar as private enterprises are significant actors, as Ari Ezra Waldman ’02, J.D. …
Issue: January-February 2022
The Climate Connection between Campus and Home
… Often, when we think about the reach of the climate crisis on campus, we think about protests, …
Issue: May-June 2023
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
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 …
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
Shards in the City
… Urban archaeologists peel back the concrete skins of modern cities in search of the material remains of the past. The task challenges …
Issue: November-December 2001
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 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
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
Pictures in the Square
… There was once a quirky pizza joint called Ruggles that made pizza with cheddar instead of mozzarella—an interesting if not compelling culinary … occupied a small storefront on Mass. Ave. in the heart of Harvard Square. “I have a memory of sitting in Ruggles …
Issue: November-December 2009
The Presidency, Pending
… Feverish speculation notwithstanding, the Corporation did not use its regularly scheduled meeting with the Board of Overseers during the first weekend in February to present … January 31, when Nobel laureate Thomas R. Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, called the Crimson …
Issue: March-April 2007
Mercury on the Brain
… The pregnant women did not worry about their food. They simply ate it: chunks of fresh whale meat and pounds of fish. They ate it because they were hungry. They ate it …
Issue: May-June 2004
The Hydrogen-Powered Future
… road winding between horse pastures, cross a small bridge, then climb a gravel lane, and you can reach a house that seems to defy the laws of physics. About 70,000 visitors have flocked here since it … starting projects with such determinedly sea-level enterprises as multinational corporations, real-estate developers, …
Issue: January-February 2004
The Happiness Revolutionary
… in February 2020, President Donald Trump sat on one side of the dais and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the other. In the … says Brooks, former president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a center-right Washington think tank. …
Issue: January-February 2023