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The Glass House
… The following text is a sidebar to " Modern and Historic ," … the Glass House itself, the Brick (guest) House, a glass-roofed sculpture gallery, paintings that are located in an … Johnson’s on-site visitor’s center inspired by the work of artist and architect Frank Stella. Along the way, …
Issue: September-October 2007
The Early Retirees
… The University has disclosed how many staff members, by school, were offered and accepted the voluntary early-retirement … those 55 years and older, with 10 or more years of Harvard service--one of the principal cost-saving …
The Undergraduate: Learning Space
… I maintain that the foremost reward for returning to Harvard as a senior is … to morning lecture—this is a peculiar, important kind of wisdom. The locations of water fountains and restrooms are similarly significant. …
Issue: November-December 2014
Artist Rick Lowe to Headline Graduate School of Design Class Day
… Rick Lowe, a pioneering public artist, will speak at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Class Day on May 27. Lowe, a 2002 Loeb Fellow at the GSD, is best known for his two decades of work with Project Row Houses (PRH). He founded the …
Yesterday’s News
… 1913 The class of ’14 votes almost unanimously for the installation of electric lights in the senior dorms, suggesting the …
Issue: March-April 2013
The SIGnboard
… seek fellow alumni who share your interests, remember that the Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIG officers to share news of their groups’ activities in this space. (Send items to …
Issue: May-June 2009
The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes
… Poet Carl Phillips ’81 won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 , a collection … that the prize committee called a “masterful” chronicle of American culture “as the country struggles to make sense of its politics, of life in the wake of a pandemic, and of …
Quick at the Plate
… with friends cheering him on, Ian Walker '03 swallowed up the lead of a chomping Eagle from Boston College and won the first … — comprising six half-pound hamburgers and 12 slices of cheese on a roll. Entrants from Boston University and …
Issue: May-June 2003
Clearing the Air
… Every day, most of us get in a car and drive. We adjust the temperature, maybe turn on the radio, and flip on the … in Santiago, Cairo, or Beijing. (Harvard now supplies these machines to other universities and to the EPA.) When the …
Issue: May-June 2005
“Go Guard the Galaxy”
… was keynote speaker at today’s 2023 Class Day ceremony for the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He shared with graduates what he … the aftermath. Gupta’s work has taken him to the frontlines of Flint, Michigan’s, water crisis, the Gulf of Mexico’s oil …
The Hunt for New Drugs
… The Harvard Malaria Initiative ( www.hsph. harvard.edu/research/hmi ) began in 1997 as a way of bringing together varied resources and expertise across Harvard to focus on scientific problems of the malaria epidemic. The team—a collaboration among the …
Issue: March-April 2010
Words from the Wilderness for Classmates
… At the middle of the twentieth century, Ernest Oberholtzer '07, G '08 (1884-1977), longtime president of the Quetico-Superior Council, was "one of the best known …
Issue: May-June 2002
Further Financial Fallout
… Understandably , the Harvard University Financial Report for fiscal year … in mid October, is dominated by the plunge in value of the endowment (see “$11 Billion Less,” November-December … 2009, it appears that the added interest expense will rise by an additional amount of the same magnitude—another …
Issue: January-February 2010
The Vernacular
… Vorenberg recalls stumbling over a “Harvard shibboleth” in the 1970s when her late husband, James ’49, LL.B. ’51, former dean of the Law School and Pound professor of law, was master of Dunster House. “Jim and I had …
Issue: September-October 2007
A Lifetime of Sharing
… In the late 1970s, I attended my first Class of 1960 luncheon, in those days held at the downtown Harvard Club of Boston. It quickly became clear that these gatherings …
Issue: May-June 2010