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A Scholar in the House
… Tradition and the twenty-first century were tangled together in Barker Center’s Thompson Room on the afternoon of February 11, when Drew Gilpin Faust conducted her first … in 1997. A thicket of television cameras filled the risers erected for the occasion, attesting to worldwide …
Issue: July-August 2007
The Coronavirus Campus
… As Harvard leaders— and their higher-education peers nationwide—make early-summer … guidance. The Great Recession and after were financial crises, highlighted by the collapsing value of the endowment, and resolved in time by belt-tightening, …
Issue: July-August 2020
A Middling Year
… (HMC) reported a 6.5 percent return on endowment assets for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. The endowment’s value … (4.3 percent) from $39.2 billion a year earlier. In a year of more modest results for most university endowments (see … its report, the factors contributing to the 4.3 percent rise in the endowment’s value cannot be known precisely. But …
Issue: November-December 2019
Men and Their Castles
… Architect Ogden Codman Jr. grew up in the shadow of two men: his great grandfather John and his … span the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age, shedding light on the rise of American interior design. But the personal nature of …
Issue: September-October 2024
The $16-Trillion Virus
… The final tally of economic damage caused by SARS-CoV-2 will have to wait for the pandemic’s end, but in the meantime, two eminent … cost in the United States alone at $16 trillion. Eckstein professor of applied economics David Cutler, an expert on …
How Revolutions Happen
… Robert Darnton , Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian emeritus, is a formidable historian of the book and of France. In his sweeping new book, The … royal depravity and corruption) were refracted and gave rise to a new, radical public consciousness punctuated by …
Issue: November-December 2023
Doris Salcedo Gives Form to Tragedy
… Last month , Doris Salcedo returned to the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá, the center of Colombia’s public life and host to some of her most … to Colombia coincided with a wave of violence, and the rise of additional factions: narco-traffickers and …
The Actor Explores
… In Moscow there are 200 theaters, and the drama students from … who study there can see plays every night in the company of impassioned audiences. “The theaters there are packed, ” … who in June completed the singular program in theater arts offered by the Harvard-affiliated American Repertory Theatre …
Issue: November-December 2007
The Bible and the Almanac
… On the day of his subject's ninetieth birthday, May 3, Alec Wilkinson's The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger (of the College class of 1940) will be …
Issue: May-June 2009
Harvard College to Accommodate 40 Percent of Students Each Semester
… About 40 percent of Harvard undergraduates—entering first-year students, and those who cannot learn successfully in their current home environment—will be permitted to be in … to put health and safety first, protect the academic enterprise, leverage our breadth and diversity, and preserve …
Merrick Garland to Address Classes of 2020-2021 Ceremony
… announced today that Merrick B. Garland ’74, J.D. ’77, the eighty-sixth Attorney General of the United States, will address the special Commencement … on Sunday, May 29: the make-up ceremony for the classes of 2020-2021 (now alumni, of course), who received their …
Tupperware: The Movie
… Filmmakers have so delighted in debunking the idyllic myth of 1950s America that exposing the era's … with scandal and intrigue. Now a new documentary, bereft of salaciousness but chock-full of drama, reveals the …
Issue: September-October 2003
Harvard Unveils Plans for Science and Engineering Center
… University officials have now released designs for the long-anticipated Harvard John A. Paulson School of … expected to be completed in 2020. The complex—which will rise on the foundation left behind in 2010 when construction …
The Campaign Computes
… As it proceeded during the fall semester, The Harvard Campaign featured a … gift (computer sciences); and interesting evidence of the effects ofsmaller-scale philanthropy across the … scarcer. Hence the emphasis on securing the research enterprise through the campaign. Innovation: $50 million. Under …
Issue: January-February 2015
Save the Date
… “From the Closet to a Place at the Table: Celebrating 25 Years of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus” is the first-ever … the Closet to a Place at the Table: Celebrating 25 Years of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus” is the first-ever …
Issue: July-August 2008