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From the Presidency to the Cabinet?
… With the rumor mill abuzz that Eliot University … whether or not Summers’s concerns about the scholarship of African American studies professor Cornel West were …
Bridget Terry Long Named Dean of Education School
… Economist Bridget Terry Long has been named dean of the Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She will take office on July 1, …
Admissions on Trial
… November, in a federal case that could ultimately change the shape of college admissions nationwide. At issue is whether the … case, including preferences for athletes and for children of donors and alumni. Such policies have been widely …
Issue: January-February 2019
Off the Shelf
… The Close: A Young Woman's First Year at Seminary , by Chloe … Cambridge in an interfaith, secular household, the daughter of an American Jewish father (and U.S. Supreme Court … an Episcopal minister. Why? She explains in this memoir of her first year at General Theological Seminary in New …
Harvard Alumni Day with Courtney B. Vance
… Two sets of protestors briefly interrupted interim president Alan M. Garber’s remarks during the Alumni Day celebration on Friday, May 31, as he and … election during the Civil War and the compromises that gave rise to the violence of Jim Crow, to the fights of the civil …
Strokes of Genius
… Traditionally, Harvard has not been known as a golf power. The school’s most significant figure in the sport (if you … arguably is Edward S. Stimpson II ’27, two-time captain of the golf team, who in 1935 invented the Stimpmeter, a … seasons, under Fred Schernecker ’89, the Weissman director of golf, and coach Kevin Rhoads, Harvard’s linksters have …
Issue: September-October 2016
Retiring from the Ranks
… Of the 176 senior professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and four professional …
Issue: January-February 2011
The Mating Game
… students and prospective employers begin a complicated rite of courtship, complete with flirting (invitations), wooing (interviews), and proposals (offers). There is even a matchmaker, the Office of Career Services …
Colossal Blossom
… The largest flower in the world, Rafflesia arnoldii, is more … infected host vine and swell slowly over months to the size of cabbages. In full bloom, each bud’s central floral … region’s spectacular plant diversity. Where the landscape rises from coastal low-land tropics to Mount Kinabalu, which …
Issue: March-April 2017
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 …
Into the Inferno, with Notebook
… Ragtop down, a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay and the city below suddenly opens up for two seconds as we tear … students how the U.S. government reacts to foreign policy crises overseas," says Tarnoff. In simulated press …
Issue: January-February 2005
The DNA of World Literature
… Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” written in German, is notoriously difficult to translate. The poem, about a fragmentary statue of Apollo, is dense with enigmatic metaphors: the speaker …
Facing Risks for the Public Good: The Kennedy School Graduation Address
… In the carefully secured John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, the Harvard Kennedy School’s class of 2010 heard Dean David Ellwood introduce their … Mexican president Felipe Calderón, M.P.A. ’00, as a man of action whose efforts to better his country stand as an …
Commencement and Alumni Annual Meeting Notice 2022
… Commencement Exercises for the Class of 2022 Thursday, May 26, 2022 … of the ceremony, the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: March-April 2022
Waving the Flag
… IN 1913 Loomis Temple of Music of New Haven published sheet music for a Yale fight song … "Good-Night poor Har-vard, Har-vard Good-night!" goes the refrain. "We've got your number you're high as a kite. …