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… Hiram Hunn Awards • Call for Nominations Alumni Abroad The Harvard Alumni Association is sponsoring a "Harvard in … to "engage our global alumni in the intellectual life" of the University. The event takes place in London on the weekend of November 14. Highlights include seminars on "Constructing …
Issue: September-October 2003
Harvard’s Class Gap
… The gap between coastal elites and America’s white working … class has been growing for decades, but in the wee hours of November 9, America’s intellectuals discovered that they … For some, the gap exposed by the election has given rise to understandable feelings of moral superiority toward …
Issue: May-June 2017
The E-Mail Investigation
… Three searches of Harvard College resident deans’ e-mail accounts last September—prompted by unauthorized disclosure of Administrative Board communications during an … undertaken in good faith” by people who “believed that they were acting in compliance with applicable e-mail …
Issue: September-October 2013
Arts and Sciences’ Fisc
… Following publication of Harvard’s fiscal 2011 financial report (see “Deficit Days” ), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) released details of … aid. In fiscal 2012, however, the distribution has begun to rise modestly, and dean of administration and finance Leslie …
Issue: January-February 2012
The 2011 Honorary Degree Recipients
… The University announced that at the morning exercises … confer honorary degrees on six men and three women. Brief profiles appear here; for the formal degree citations, check … warmth and interest in fostering the scientific enterprise—much of the historical narrative in that lecture …
Taking a Page from Knopf
… Since becoming director of Harvard University Press (HUP) in September 2017, George Andreou has begun tackling the biggest challenges facing academic publishing—the rise of online scholarly publishing, changed economics in an …
Issue: November-December 2018
The Student Prince
… and house-made bratwürst, dishes that have been on the menu of The Student Prince Café & The Fort Restaurant … a gas fireplace in the main dining room Photograph courtesy of The Student Prince Then he nods to the walls that tell …
Issue: November-December 2021
Off the Shelf
… The End of Bias: A Beginning , by Jessica Nordell ’99 … collections steward presents items from the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture as pure, captivating forms. No matter … of the parental one percent (“Gatsby’s children”). The surprise is how miserable these cosseted, pressured youngsters …
Issue: November-December 2021
The College’s New Dean
… Rakesh Khurana , Bower professor of leadership development at Harvard Business School and professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), will become dean of …
Issue: March-April 2014
Where the Gentrified Antelope Play
… Three decades ago, Davis Square in Somerville was the pits. A Cambridge matron who lives nearby recalls … there for ice cream, but nothing else she wanted was on offer. The movie theater, which had once been an opera … and a glass or two of wine in a neighborhood bistro. Enterprise has provided just such a place amid former blight: …
Issue: September-October 2001
Summer at the Beach
… For 42 summers, George Howe Colt '76 repaired to the four-story, 11-bedroom ark of a summer house his great-grandfather Ned Atkinson built on a Cape Cod peninsula in 1903. Now the members of the extended family who own the romantic, run-down place …
Issue: July-August 2003
Images from the Ballets Russes
… Lubov Tchernicheva, pictured here for a 1920 production of Cleopatra, was ballet mistress of the Ballets Russes in the latter 1920s, and played a …
Issue: November-December 2019
The Listener
… never ceased being a scholar and a teacher. He arranged to offer a week-long seminar during Freshman Orientation--an … undergraduate seminar in Shakespeare's sonnets and, through the two hours, let students see their president as a scholar of Renaissance poetry whose presence as a teacher is …
Save the Date: President Gay Installation
… P resident-elect Claudine Gay, who assumes office July 1 , will be formally installed on Friday, September 29, the Office of the University Marshal announced today . No …
Jazzy Tribute to Tom Everett
… Appropriately enough, an evening of superb jazz on Saturday, April 13, formed the final Harvard tribute to Tom Everett, who retired this … with the band on his own composition, the spirited High Rise. After an intermission, saxophonist Joshua Redman ’91 …