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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 …
Steel and Skin
… Rising at 60 Oxford Street is the University Information Services Building. Stepped-down … Dean Rogers | Partners Architects, is a model for the kinds of structures that will be erected in the North Precinct. … facility, designed by Ellenzweig Associates, comprises robotics and instrumentation labs, wet and dry …
Issue: May-June 2002
FAS: Faculty and Fisc
… At a November 8 reception in University Hall, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) celebrated Michael D. … the fiscal 2018 results: the endowment distribution will rise this year, but current-use giving might fall. Strong …
Issue: January-February 2019
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
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
Saluting the 2020 Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
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 …
Changed by the Court
… Few Supreme Court justices, after their appointments, have drastically changed their fundamental views of law and life. Most justices, after all, have been … Court at a time in their careers when their basic patterns of belief have already become more or less settled. For this …
Issue: July-August 2005
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
Yellow Wolf's Silence: The Untold Nez Perce War Story
… For the first 50 years of his life, Yellow Wolf preferred … Joseph drew large crowds for speeches about the injustice of his people’s plight, Yellow Wolf said nothing of his … Canadian border. But Yellow Wolf caught McWhorter by surprise. For one thing, his story gave the lie to official …
Issue: May-June 2017
Off the Shelf
… The Crucible of Islam , by G.W. Bowersock ’57 (Harvard, $25). The staggeringly learned professor emeritus of ancient history at the Institute for …
Issue: May-June 2017
Letters Between Friends
… In 2004 , the Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum in New Bedford purchased a collection of documents that included the William Rotch (1844–1925) … between 1858 and 1861. Willie was the great-grandson of William Rotch Jr. (1759–1850), who built the house that …
Before the Cocktail Napkin
… “The sketch on a cocktail napkin has become a modern-day … writes Cammy Brothers ’91, Ph.D. ’99, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Virginia. The architect …
Issue: January-February 2009
Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100
… Tony Saich begins his magisterial account of the hundred-year history of the Chinese Communist Party … shift to opening and reform in the early 1980s, and the rise of Xi Jinping in the context of a massive …
Issue: July-August 2021
Saluting the Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …