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… The commencement festivities conclude with addresses by … JUNE 5 50th Reunion Symposium, at 1:30. "A Half Century of Change: Race, Admissions, and the Harvard Community," … Jones, and John Simon; moderated by Adams University Professor emeritus Bernard Bailyn. Sanders Theatre. Top …
The Way of the Long Strings
… To be a virtuoso musician and a college student at the same time is somewhat like forcing two people into one … —skills that develop through three or four hours of practice every evening. Photograph by Stu Rosner Then, that little matter of studying. Carter, a psychology concentrator, does her …
Issue: March-April 2003
The Origins of Egg Shape
… THE COMMON MURRE , a slender, northern-dwelling bird that … conical, a structure that, according to a popular theory of egg shape, might have evolved as an adaptation to the … spin in a tight circle, making them less likely to roll off a cliff and shatter. Other hypotheses link egg shape to …
Harvard College Admits Class of 2026
… The College has admitted 1,954 of 61,220 applicants to the … rate last year —the arithmetical result of the continuing rise in the applicant pool. Looking ahead, Harvard has …
What the Meaning of the Word "Is" Is
… Man of letters (and movies, and newspapers, and television) … on Francis Avenue in Cambridge. Especially luminous members of the Harvard faculty have houses all around him. Kaplan …
That Championship Season
… The Harvard Rugby Football Club team is not like any other … seasonal pig roasts, a tribal retreat evoking both the Lord of the Flies and Animal House . Self-governed, they operate with a kind of punk-rock anarchistic do-it-yourself edginess that even …
The Health Benefits of Owning a Pet
… Today is National Pet Day , and pet owners have another reason to celebrate: their pets are helping them live … to die,” said Harvard Medical School clinical assistant professor Beth Frates, citing the American Heart Association’s … In a talk yesterday at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Frates and Megan Mueller, associate …
The State of the Libraries
… Editor's note: Pforzheimer University Professor Robert Darnton, the Harvard University Librarian since 2007, is retiring at … Archives of North America, as this collective enterprise is known, provides another example of how Harvard can …
The Language of Emotion
… feeling “angry” or “distressed” or “dejected,” what do they really mean? Psychologists vigorously debate whether … concepts mean, and how people understand them, is part of Nook’s work with Leah Somerville, an associate professor … as a function of age, “was almost a complete surprise to us,” Somerville says. Nook had expected …
Issue: July-August 2018
New Members of Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of HAA
… The newly elected members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the …
Arts and Engineering
… substantive academic planning at Harvard is going on all the time, including curricular innovations and faculty … Harvard Magazine spoke in January with Martignetti professor of philosophy Sean Kelly, dean of arts and … Kelly’s home department—the number of concentrators has risen dramatically. “When I arrived in 2006,” he says, “we …
Issue: March-April 2025
How America Grew
… Human existence changed irreversibly after the innovation of indoor plumbing and municipally supplied … moves forward at an engaging pace. Nonetheless, a tension arises when he turns to the present, in the last fifth of the …
Issue: May-June 2016
“Amazement at the Physicality of Things”
… concentrator, served as an undergraduate fellow during the preparations for the Houghton Library’s seventy-fifth … Until the 1990s, Houghton Library’s outer doors were made of steel. They made the building feel like Harvard’s Fort … library was, then, a place where undergraduates did not often tread. I entered Houghton for the first time on a …
A Democracy of Opportunity
… for a second term as president by pressing to rebuild the United States as “a democracy of opportunity.” At the Democratic National Convention, FDR … that is becoming new again. Before the twentieth-century rise of economics as a discipline, thinkers as varied as …
Issue: January-February 2022
Graduate School of Design Class Day Speaker Danielle S. Allen
… Conant University professor Danielle S. Allen grew up in a large, “politically committed” extended family in 1970s Southern California. “Almost as if with mother’s milk,” she … A massive increase in income and wealth inequality and rise in incarceration rates, an acceleration of the climate …