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The Finish Line

… Harvard's university campaign, the most ambitious such effort ever in higher education, … history, surpassing by a wide margin the original goal of $2.1 billion." For the record, the exact sum recorded, according to the University Development Office, was $2,653,396,000, but who's counting?   Goal Funds …

You Play the Mall Developer

… Teachers of negotiation use role simulations, powerful learning devices that help students internalize theory in a compelling way. I play the representative of an opera company who wants to explore a deal to hire a …

Issue: March-April 2004

The '01 Scholars

… no American Rhodes Scholarships this year, but dodged the null set with the selection of economics concentrator Tegan S. Shohet ’01 (below), of Mather House and Toronto, for a Canadian Rhodes. …

Yale’s defense held Gino Gordon ’11, Harvard’s all-Ivy running back, to 36 yards rushing, but couldn’t keep him out of the end zone. Gordon rushed for short-yardage touchdowns in both halves of The Game. At the team’s postseason banquet he received the Crocker Award as the team’s most valuable player.

Scenes From The Game

… On November 20, the Crimson logged their fourth straight win over the Elis in the Harvard-Yale … see some memorable moments from The Game 2010. … A gallery of images from the 2010 Harvard-Yale football game … 29667 … …

Issue: January-February 2011

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Reverence for the Object

…   "...in every prosperous municipality in the land, in the next ten years the call is likely to come … Harvard must maintain its leadership in this new profession, the dignity of which is as yet imperfectly … very idea that art is in any sense an autonomous enterprise or that its highest achievements often add up to a good …

Issue: September-October 2002

A hybrid classroom showing the large screens enabling a teacher to see all the students, remote or present, as he is followed by a camera operator.

Harvard Pilots In-Person Teaching for the Fall Semester

… On the first Wednesday afternoon in April, Daniel Lord Smail … into pairs, to brainstorm about the characteristics of their families’ traditional meals. It’s a perfectly … safely at the beginning of the term, other problems arise. The number of first-year students will be at least 20 …

John S. Rosenberg

Health & MedicineOther NewsUniversity NewsHarvard College
In a still from "The Painter and the Thief," the male thief watches the female artist at work.

Missed Some of 2020’s Best Films?

… Because many viewers missed out on 2020 films, the Brattle Theatre’s Ned Hinkle and Coolidge Corner … rejoin her husband, learns he has died, and follows traces of his secret life. (Portugal) • His House: An allegorical … in Oslo tracks down the man who stole her paintings—an often raw meditation on vulnerability, self-destruction, and …

Nell Porter-Brown

Arts & CulturePerforming & Recorded Arts

The Swinging Lingmans

… In college tennis, there are no mixed doubles: athletes play only against their … squads. "He watches all my home matches and I see all of his at home," says Susanna. "We talk after every match, … person I'm closest to in the world. He knows every aspect of my life." The siblings share many similarities, including …

Craig Lambert

Issue: May-June 2004

The Yard Crew

… Every spring, after the desiccating winds of winter, lush green grass sprouts in … maturity just in time for Commencement—when throngs of jubilant students and proud parents promptly trample it …

Issue: May-June 2011

Harvard History & Traditions

The Harvard Review

… Founded in 1992, the Harvard Review ( http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview ) … essays, plays, short fiction, and book reviews. It grew out of Harvard Book Review and Erato, literary magazines started by Stratis Haviaras, former curator of poetry in the Woodberry Poetry Room of Lamont Library. …

Issue: November-December 2005

Photograph of Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates to Receive Radcliffe Medal

… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS) announced … the featured speaker on Radcliffe Day, May 29, at the end of Harvard’s Commencement week. Gates, the philanthropist … Consumer Banking; Amanda Nguyen ’13, founder and CEO of Rise Justice Labs; and Gina Raimondo ’93, governor of Rhode …

John S. Rosenberg

University NewsCommencement

Stem Cells in the New Year

… Brock Reeve, executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute , offers his predictions for what 2008 holds for the field of …

Science & TechnologyFaculty & Community

Your Take: Dropping Out of Harvard

… In the July-August 2010 issue of the magazine, Craig Lambert explores the lives of three dropouts from the Harvard class of 1969. Read the …

Issue: July-August 2010

Commentary

Nixing the News

… If those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it—as philosopher George … once wrote—and if news reports provide a first rough draft of history—as Philip Graham, LL.B. ’39, the late publisher of the Washington Post, said in 1963—then today’s teenagers …

Elizabeth Gudrais

Issue: November-December 2007

The President's Grandfather

… Grenville L. Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89 (who gave to the Fogg Art Museum 3,700 treasures in all: archaic jades, … case, made by Ahasuerus Fromanteel about 1660 is one of the first-known pendulum clocks; a swing marks a second gone. A favorite of Charles A. Ditmas Jr., G '45, honorary keeper of the …