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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
Seasons at the Arboretum
… In 2008, photographer Jim Harrison, whose portraits of Harvard community members have appeared in this magazine for decades, turned his eye to a new subject: the plants at the University’s Arnold Arboretum, where he … when shooting outdoors, the “golden hours” just after sunrise and just before sunset provide dramatic light. For …
Issue: July-August 2018
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: March-April 2009
News from the HAA
… 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
Jobs and Jail
… In the 1970s and ’80s, America’s cities were engulfed in … hollowed out, and fragile working-class communities ruined. Often, it’s told as a white working-class story, but … home that I had been raised in. Drug addiction was on the rise. People had to rely more on public assistance to get …
Issue: May-June 2021
Off the Ice, Onto the Screen
… Two years out of Harvard, government concentrator Bill Keenan ’09 was in … playing minor-league hockey in Sweden, still dreaming of his life-long desire to play in the NHL, when he was traded into the German league for a …
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
From the Archives: The Ultimate Commencement Address
… S eventy Commencements ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States embraced both … of the Truman Doctrine in March had taken Congress by surprise, and powerful senators had resented it. Marshall and …
Time to Electrify
… The recent spike in oil prices , to more than $100 per … the resulting, predictable outcry over the return of the $4 gallon of gas—have prompted hurried responses from … for ethanol has at least contributed to the recent rise in global food prices. Why not abolish the corn-ethanol …
Issue: July-August 2011
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 …
Off the Shelf
… On the Rez, by Ian Frazier ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, … road in the distance who might be drunk, and a scattering of window-glass fragments in the weeds that might be from a … diaper playing in a bare-dirt yard, and an acrid smell of burning trash—all the elements that usually evoke …
El-Erian for the Endowment
… and face will change at Harvard Management Company (HMC), the investment organization for the University’s endowment, with the arrival early this year of Mohamed A. El-Erian as president and chief executive … far, “The skill set of dealing with outside managers” has risen in importance, Rothenberg noted; El-Erian comes from …
Issue: January-February 2006
Defying the Doldrums
… Jon Schaefer grew up in Charlemont, a community of nearly 1,300 that lies between Williamstown and Interstate 91. His family owns the local Berkshire East Mountain Resort, where he and his … family members became racers, traveling to compete on some of the world’s most daunting and magnificent alpine heights. …
Issue: January-February 2021
Football: Harvard 26-Columbia 6
… On Saturday at the Stadium, the Harvard football team supplied precisely the right amount of drama for a team hoping to remain in first place: none. … Lions to get on the scoreboard until the final two minutes of the game. The victory raised Harvard’s record to 7-1 …
Hold the Beans
… “Beans, beans” are good for the heart…but many vegetarian restaurants mistakenly offer “1,001 ways to mash, mix, and fry the garbanzos” instead of dreaming up more creative and beautiful plant-based …
Issue: January-February 2013