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HAA Clubs Committee Awards
… The HAA Clubs Committee presents two annual awards for contributions to Harvard clubs. Recipients of the 2005 Outstanding Club Contribution Award are: William … waived 2005–2006 dues, which has resulted in a 10-fold rise in membership. Hardy, who is also a leader of his …
Issue: March-April 2006
Brevia
… Ultimate Overseers Harvard’s Board of Overseers (the University’s junior governing board) has elected Seth P. … Tuition Ticks Up The cost of attending Harvard College will rise to $50,724 next academic year, from $48,868 currently. …
Issue: May-June 2010
News from the HAA
… Aloian Winners Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) and Master of Quincy House, the Aloian Memorial Scholarships recognize …
Issue: November-December 2001
The Federal Funds Rate...
… Graduating senior William Bailey delivers his Ivy Oration, “The Federal Funds Rate and the Channels of Monetary Transmission,” at Class Day 2008. Watch the live … his Ivy Oration, “The Federal Funds Rate and the Channels of Monetary Transmission,” at Class Day 2008... … The …
Earl Brown
… baseball player. That would be Earl Brown, class of 1924 , a star pitcher who went on to pitch for the New York Lincoln Giants of the Eastern Colored League. … Soyer, author of The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy , “because he is …
Issue: March-April 2022
Outsider inside the MCZ
… Editor's note: Purcell grew up in Cambridge and was taken often to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. "I stood mute, appalled, at the age …
Hopi Hoekstra Appointed Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean
… B iologist Hopi e.Hoekstra will become dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) effective August 1. … evolving state of Crimson coursework today.) Hoekstra reprised some of these perspectives in September 2013, as one …
HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs
… The honors, awarded at the Harvard Alumni Association’s … to “create a strong, connected, collaborative community of Harvard University alumni who are practitioners, … and troubleshooting—all of which has yielded a significant rise in club membership and in revenue. Club events include …
Issue: March-April 2018
Enlarging the Field
… arriving at Harvard in 2009, Damrosch has attempted to open the conversation on world literature—and with it, the discipline of comparative literature—through a collaborative … in July. The four-week program assembles a core faculty of literary scholars and some 150 fellow scholars and …
Issue: September-October 2019
The Forgotten Jugglers
… Everything is better on roller skates. At least, that’s what the Ader Brothers thought when they decided that their juggling act—in which they tossed upwards of 12 objects in the air simultaneously—needed more oomph. For vaudeville acts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, …
Issue: January-February 2023
University of Texas Joins Harvard, MIT in edX Online Learning Venture
… The University of Texas (UT) System today announced its affiliation with edX, the nonprofit Harvard-MIT online learning venture launched last May . … new edX affiliation comes as other online-education enterprises race to sign partnership agreements with multiple …
The Take-on Artist
… Whether or not her kick in the womb was especially strong, forward Joey Yenne '03 of the women's soccer team showed competitive fire very … like doing something competitive," she says. Quelle surprise. ~Craig Lambert … Soccer star joey Yenne eats up …
Issue: November-December 2001
Encounters at the Border
… The first time photographer Morgan Smith ’60 crossed into … a taxi driver, “a really nice guy,” he says, “who kind of took me on a tour.” A retired lawyer and former Special … Later, he showed Smith the spot where the city’s chief of police had been ambushed and killed. “And I felt like …
The Senior Alumni
… Evelyn Richmond ’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Arsen Charles ’42, of Westwood, Massachusetts, were the oldest Radcliffe and Harvard alumni present on …
Issue: July-August 2019
Playing the Fields
… This fall's edition of Courses of Instruction lists 943 new choices, some renamed, some renumbered, but most basically new. The tally includes thirteen new Core offerings (and a new … history, and biology. Since 1990, biochemical sciences has risen 73 percent to rank in the top five, and history has …