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The Corporation Reports
… Two years after the Harvard Corporation enacted sweeping governance reforms … Nannerl O. Keohane, LL.D. ’93, and William F. Lee ’72 offered a briefing on how its work has changed. The reforms … expertise and internal committees providing deeper coverage of critical matters. Reischauer said each committee had …
Issue: March-April 2013
Arts and Sciences’ New Look
… At its first faculty meeting of the year, on October 3, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences … Grading: “Inflation” vs. Compression In something of a surprise, Rakesh Khurana, Harvard College dean, and Claybaugh …
Joanne Chang’s Sticky Buns
… Joanne Chang , owner and head pastry chef of Flour Bakery + Café, is the subject of the article " Sweet Science ," in this … place buns, evenly spaced, in the pan. Cover and allow to rise for 2 to 3 hours in a warm place. Preheat oven to 350 …
Issue: March-April 2008
Administrators Remove Last Remnants of Occupy Harvard
… Occupy Harvard’s geodesic dome and information tent, the last remaining physical structures of the protest movement that began on November 9 and … , have been removed from the Yard by administration officials. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Jeff …
Governing Boards Change Composition of Overseers
… petition and elected after campaigning vigorously as part of the Harvard Forward slate joined the Board of Overseers, it … challenges affecting [emphasis added] the academic enterprise , and should from time to time review aspects of its …
Jill Abramson ’76 Named Executive Editor of New York Times
… Jill Abramson '76 has been named executive editor of the New York Times , the newspaper announced today—the first … editorial post. She has been managing editor since 2003—one of two executives responsible for overseeing the newsroom. …
The Senior Marshals
… The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2004, are: (clockwise from top left) Liz Drummond of Quincy House and Winchester, Massachusetts; Shira Sivan Simon of Leverett House and West Des Moines, Iowa; John Paul M. …
Issue: May-June 2004
Unbuttoned Up
… B eau McCall: Buttons On! at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts, until … Spinnin’ on a 45 (B-Side). The nearly three-foot replica of a 45-rpm spindle adapter (that plastic disk inside a single-song record) was hand-sewn with hundreds of yellow buttons, then topped with a hundred more shaped …
Issue: September-October 2024
Fishing the Charles
… Like most children who grew up in the Virginia countryside, I spent an inordinate portion of my youth fishing. And having been conditioned to regard … all the time, pulling carp and catfish from the confluence of the Charles River’s muddy waters. And we’d heard of a …
Efficiency and Productivity in the Academy
… Speaking at the February 1 Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting—two … is eminently practical: the number of degrees conferred has risen a lot of late (from 7,415 in 2010-2011, to 8,373 in …
Issue: May-June 2022
Reforesting the Yard
… Savaged by insects , ravaged by disease and old age, the elms of Harvard Yard were much diminished by 1990 (see … of Design. Swamp white oaks, “the biggest delightful surprise,” he says, have thrived in the Yard’s heavy soils and …
Issue: November-December 2005
From the Archives: Freshman Plus 10
… What awaits members of the class of 2021? Recalling his “unusually close-knit … a plentiful commodity in Cambridge, is certainly not on the rise there.) But there are new kinds of anxiety, as well, …
Teaching the Harvard Slavery Report
… to slavery in a detailed 134-page report , a small group of faculty members and teaching staff gathered on campus late last week for a two-day seminar on how … findings into their own curricula. “Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery: From the Committee Report to the Classroom” was …
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
… in films, in television shows, and in a great deal of contemporary literature. Hollywood filmmakers and … from James Bridges to Zadie Smith, have returned to the same storied Cambridge sites: the Widener steps, the … Gate, Memorial Hall, Harvard Yard. The substantial corpus of Harvard-themed literature is the subject of my …
Issue: January-February 2023
Albanian Joins the Language Curriculum
… Albanian I classes began this semester, housed in the Near Eastern languages and civilizations (NELC) department, which also offers Aramaic, Persian, Turkish, Yiddish, and more. Edona … unusual admirative mood used to express astonishment or surprise. Apart from being the official langauge of Albania and …