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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 …
Edouard Kopp Named Curator of Drawings
… The Harvard Art Museums have named Edouard Kopp the Abrams associate curator of drawings in the museums’ division of European and American Art, officials announced this week. …
“The Roosevelts,” and Harvard
… The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, a new miniseries by Ken … wife. Using a biographical format, the films relate much of the history of the twentieth century through a Roosevelt-tinted lens. …
Buy America
… Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media Corporation, $19.95), gets … like changing the cellophane tape on the Translux ticker machines that ran all day, printing the trades on the New …
The Builder
… Several summers ago, at an idyllic weekend of chamber music in Marlboro, Vermont, Neil Rudenstine asked … went to him for guidance on college issues, and again at the Mellon Foundation, when I was at Smith and looking for … all made it singularly pleasurable to join him in the enterprise. When I retired I said that this had been a great way …
Harvard Headlines: John Adams, Brian Casey, Lawrence Summers
… Miscellaneous mentions: In a glowing review of Gustavo Dudamel's debut as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Times music critic … and sensational era of the 1940s and ’50s, which gave rise to film noir. It is not easy to evoke the milieu of an …
Focus on the Future
… its prospects during Harvard’s 375th anniversary year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) held two late-winter panel … strengths and values they hoped would endure as the enterprise evolves. Moderator Maya Jasanoff, professor of history, …
Issue: May-June 2012
A Guide to the Great Outdoors
… For outdoor adventures in New England, the nonprofit Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is the place to go. The organization offers recreational and educational activities for all ages …
Issue: March-April 2012
“Find Yourself a Teacher…”
… At Morning Prayers last year, President Claudine Gay —then in office for two months and five days—drew upon an incident in … to our intellectual pursuits. If and when tensions among us rise, I hope that we will approach each other, not only as …
Laying It On
… Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen , a traveling show at the Rose Art Museum, reveals her ardent experimentation. … and reveled in circles and serialized forms. Works of collaged strips of textiles—ripped, then re-sewn—are painted over. Some are …
Issue: March-April 2019
Howell Jackson Acting Dean-Designate of Harvard Law School
… The University has announced that Howell Jackson has been designated acting dean of Harvard Law School, subject to current dean Elena Kagan's … confirmation as U.S. Solicitor General . Jackson is Reid professor of law . The text of the statement follows. Howell …
The Empty Seat
… For as long as I can remember, there has been a man sitting next to me in Row 00 of Section 28 at the Harvard Stadium: Robert D. Hall, class … public transportation was available. Despite occasional surprises—like the return train to Boston from a Penn game …
Issue: September-October 2003
Paradise Found
… Tim Laman, Ph.D. ’94, again found himself more than 80 feet off the ground, hidden in a rainforest blind made of skinny palm … camera that took wide shots by remote control. At sunrise, two male Greater Birds-of-Paradise arrived. With …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Sweetest Thing
… In the mid 1980s, Ram Sasisekharan, Ph.D. '92, turned to tennis to ease the pressure of his intensive graduate studies in biophysics. His search … especially about their mutual interest in the structures of carbohydrates . Eventually, Sasisekharan turned those …
Issue: November-December 2003
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 …