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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 …
Overhauling the Endowment
… In November, he invited Harvard Magazine to HMC’s offices to discuss these changes in depth. Blyth directly addressed an altered … November-December 2015, page 22, and “ Harvard Endowment Rises to $37.6 Billion on 5.8 Percent Investment Return .” … …
Issue: January-February 2016
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
The Harvard Man, Redefined
… The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative -- which waives … parental contributions for families with annual income of $60,000 or less -- has made it easier for students from families of modest means to attend, but those students face a host of …
Admissions Angst: The Next Level
… College received about 35,000 applications for admission to the class of 2015 , according to data released today. This represents … the 30,489 applications received last year (when the number of applicants expanded by nearly 5 percent), and a more than …
Nancy Coleman Appointed Dean of Continuing Education
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today announced … Nancy Coleman, currently associate provost and director of strategic growth initiatives at Wellesley College, will become dean of the Division of Continuing Education (DCE, the Harvard …
The Lawyer Librettist
… “Lucifer’s car was towed,” someone announced to the room—they’d have to start without him. The three Fates … finally arrived with breathless apology, the workshop cast of Rev. 23— all graduate students in the New England … program—prepared to take act one from the top. The curtain rises: the apocalypse is over. Heaven reigns on Earth. …
Issue: January-February 2017
Radcliffe and the Right
… year,” Ross Douthat ’02 sighed gustily. He was lamenting the irony of being a Catholic conservative who lately found himself … that people in your movement have tried to negotiate the rise of Donald Trump?” Yoest answered that while some might …
Unraveling “Racial Threat”
… Riding the train to work every day in Chicago, Ryan Enos began to … station, all the African-American riders seemed to get off just as Caucasian riders climbed aboard. “It was like a … exposed to the Spanish-speakers, he found a significant rise in exclusionary attitudes among those interviewed. “The …
Issue: September-October 2014
Growth Spurt
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the … positions annually for a decade. In fact, the census has risen from 615 positions during the 1997-1998 academic year … certain to slow because of what he calls “the considerable rise in our expenditures,” attributable primarily to the …
Issue: May-June 2007
Ants through the Ages
… in present-day Colombia and promptly began writing hundreds of pages of groundbreaking observations about ants. He sent them in book form to the great Swedish taxonomist Carl …
Issue: July-August 2011
Off the Shelf
… A Natural History of North American Trees , by Donald Culross Peattie ’22, … (Houghton Mifflin, $40). This is a one-volume edition of two classics from the 1950s by Peattie (1898-1964), who wrote about the giant …
Issue: May-June 2007
The Community Scholar
… a fire drill at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Lines of students slowly pour out onto the grounds of the large, comprehensive high school. It's a warm, sunny …
Issue: January-February 2002
Studying Suicide
… Professor of psychology Matthew Nock studies suicide: what causes people to take their own lives; how to predict who will try; and how to …
Issue: January-February 2011
Harvard Public Health Dean Julio Frenk to Depart
… Julio Frenk , who became dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (as it was then known) … and nutrition-related problems Poverty and humanitarian crises , from war-caused displacement of populations to …