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The Case for Compromise
… American voters hold their elected officials, collectively, in low regard, even … always been challenging. It becomes harder still with the rise of the permanent campaign. The relentless pressures of …
Issue: July-August 2012
Harvard Announces Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
… On Monday afternoon, Harvard announced the appointment of Sheree Ohen as the inaugural associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging for the Faculty of …
The Search, Summarized
… The quest for Harvard's twenty-seventh president took shape … 22 that he would step down June 30, 2001, after a decade of service. Under Harvard's charter, the Corporation elects … the president, with counsel and consent from the Board of Overseers. As in the 1990-91 search that selected …
Steven Maheshwary: “Confidence, in a Handful of Dust”
… width:402] In his Harvard Oration , one of four student speeches on Class Day, Steven Maheshwary ’12 stressed the importance of enthusiasm and urged his fellow classmates on Class Day …
Ross Gay Finds the Right Ground at the Radcliffe Institute
… By the end of the hour, Ross Gay had people all but swaying in the aisles. A poet and professor at Indiana University whose 2015 collection, Catalog …
Back with a Marshall, Still Strong in the Rhodes
… Thomas Wolf Jon Chase / Harvard News Office Melissa Dell Sarah Hill Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Swati Mylavarapu … of Pforzheimer House and Brielle, New Jersey, has restored the University to a list it missed last year for the first …
Issue: March-April 2005
“Theater Is Church”
… In one scene of Katori Hall’s The Hot Wing King, the characters sing all of “Never Too … needed the breathing room television allowed. Hall was surprised and “honored” to be given the reins, knowing how few …
Issue: July-August 2020
Bringing the Stars to Light
… have developed a television series about the Harvard Computers, a team of women who mapped the night sky while working at the … twentieth centuries. The women analyzed photographic plates of the stars, and across the years they helped uncover …
An Ipswich Idyll
… Behind the “Great House” on the Crane Estate in Ipswich, … . Or they may tour the 59-room mansion, a rare survivor of America’s early twentieth-century country-estate era. “We … enjoy this unique place,” says Bob Murray, regional manager of Trustees (previously The Trustees of Reservations), which …
Issue: September-October 2015
The Grounds Round
… de Vergie ’56 finds it entertaining and informative to scan the want ads when he reads the paper. One Sunday morning in … the Washington Post that intrigued him: the U.S. Department of State was looking for a specialist in landscape … earned a bachelor’s degree in that field at the University of Michigan and had worked in private firms ever since. He …
Not Sporting?
… athletics is changing in fundamental ways. Under pressure of nine-figure annual deals for major conferences’ media rights and the advent of liberal transfer privileges and … as men. But as student bodies have changed (witness the rise in international matriculants), so have their …
Issue: July-August 2023
Photos: The Campus’s Changing Face
… Scroll through these images of construction projects, 1996 to present, from the pages of Harvard Magazine. Explore the ever-changing campus with …
Issue: September-October 2011
The View from down the River
… MIT has erected some eye-catching buildings during the past few years: Frank Gehry’s exuberant Stata Center and … dormitory. Robert Simha, who for 40 years was MIT’s head of planning, points to the very different physical situations of the two schools. “One major advantage MIT had, in the …
Issue: September-October 2007
A Tale of Two Universities
… times, all Ivy League schools seem similar, but at moments of crisis their differences and vulnerabilities emerge. The eight Ivy … the conference center within the privately developed “enterprise research campus” near the Business School. But other, …
Issue: March-April 2021
Harvard Records $130-Million Deficit in Fiscal 2011
… Harvard reported a $130-million operating deficit in the fiscal year ended last June 30—about 3 percent of total expenditures—according to the Harvard University … below the rate of inflation indefinitely” (and some of the rise in expenses, of course, is associated with higher …