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Convocation 2024: The New Crew Redux
… When the Harvard College class of 2027 gathered in Tercentenary … the undergraduates while navigating continuing campus crises prompted by the internal and political reactions to …
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
Burned at the Buzzer
… T he big hit of the New York theater season in 1894 was William Gillette's Too Much … in the title role, set an Ivy League record by catching 21 of the 42 passes completed by Joe Walland, the league's …
The Harvard Film Archive
… says internationally renowned filmmaker Dusan Makavejev of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA), “thousands of brilliant, fantastic prints, many of them very rare.” …
Issue: November-December 2005
Prosperity and the Pill
… Hailed as a medical miracle, the birth-control pill has been lauded and vilified for its … sexual revolution. Now, in a recent paper, "The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions," Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin and professor of …
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
Protesters Surround Mass. Hall in “Heat Week” Action
… Two dozen students from the activist group Divest Harvard blockaded the doors of Massachusetts Hall early on Sunday evening, kicking off a … of how climate change and the accompanying sea-level rise are affecting Pacific island nations. Shouts and claps …
In from the Margins
… The first radiant spring day formed an auspicious backdrop … on April 9. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, historian of education and president of the Spencer Foundation, will … all the parents in a household work, language barriers have risen, and social inequality and even homelessness hobble …
Issue: July-August 2002
Putting the Science in Social Science
… Can political scientists devise formulas to predict the outbreak of war? Although the notion seems far-fetched, James Alt … and pundits. "It bothers us that people say they're surprised by things that we don't think should be a surprise," …
Issue: September-October 2001
“Taming” the Rhine
… fens and marshes, lush, low-lying polders and high moors of heath and bog. When he leaves his home in Lexington, Massachusetts, to visit the coast, he and his wife walk the creeks and saltmarshes of Essex and Gloucester, north of Boston. The sights and …
Issue: July-August 2006
Off the Shelf
… personalities," wrote a literary critic in 1937, "probably the most urbane and humanistic since Socrates is Mr. … the United States for more than 40 years and was a member of the Harvard faculty before World War I--in the golden age of philosophy hereabouts--Santayana is most often remembered …
Harvard in a Multipolar World
… Try to imagine what the world might be like 25 years from now. It seems quite … as the biggest economy in the world, and the galloping pace of economic growth in Asia will have established the region … Prize winners. Even in the face of mainland China’s rapid rise, the United States will retain these advantages for …
Issue: September-October 2011
Off the Shelf
… The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison , by Robert Ellis Gordon '76 and inmates of the Washington Corrections System (Washington State … state legislature. His writing and the essays and stories of six of his students provide a memorable image of the …
Saluting the 2019 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 …
Fathoming Metabolism
… A thimbleful of your blood. To Robert Gerszten, that’s like a window on … well-being. In some cases, it may even let him see into the future of your health. Gerszten and his colleague Greg Lewis work …
Issue: May-June 2011