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Libraries on the Edge
… But now budgetary pressures that have been building during the past decade, and intensified in the past year, threaten the ability of the world’s largest private library to collect works as … pace with inflation, while the cost of printed materials rises 9 percent a year. The budget of the Harvard College …
Issue: January-February 2010
Football: The Tapestry
… The 950-year-old Bayeux Tapestry ranks among the world’s … from the years 1064-66, culminating in the Norman victory of William the Conqueror over English King Harold II at the … an acute depressive phase, at a party in a Manhattan high-rise, McClelland’s life came to a spectacular, tragic end …
Issue: November-December 2023
Baseball by the Numbers
… resumes, with all its oddities: no time limit to play, the defense controlling the ball, and so on. Its long and … statistical analyst for the New York Mets, now a teacher of statistics and mathematics at Smith College, and Andrew Zimbalist, Ph.D. ’74, Woods professor of economics there (and a prominent analyst of the …
Issue: May-June 2014
Harvard College Applications Level Off
… reported today that 34,295 people have sought admission to the class of 2018—about 2 percent fewer than the record 35,023 … there is now strong demographic evidence that a two-decade rise in the number of high-school seniors in the United …
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
President Faust’s Beginning-of-2012-2013 Message
… President Drew Faust today disseminated her beginning-of-the-year message to the University community . She expressed hope for “another year of institutional aspiration and…intellectual adventure.” (As …
A Certain Slant of Light
… fall , Houghton Library will publish a gift-book edition of some lesser-known lines by Emily Dickinson: her recipe for black cake, brief on the page but epic in scale. The librarians have twice … dessert, which calls for, among other things, two pounds of butter, five of raisins, and 19 eggs. As documented on …
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
Harvard Education Dean Named University of Virginia President
… The University of Virginia announced this morning that James E. Ryan, who has been dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education since September 1, … opportunity in important ways , came to Harvard from the University of Virginia’s law school. At Harvard, Ryan …
The Context: Daniel Lieberman on Food Addiction
… Pick any popular subject in the news and it’s likely Harvard Magazine has covered it. With access to so many leading scholars, we’re often able to delve into topics in health, science, law, and … they reach the mainstream. This is the first post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
Life’s Blueprints
… How is it that every human cell contains the blueprint for an entire person? That a single cell, … organic system that is a human life? Describing the journey of scientific discovery into how that process unfolds, driven by a six-foot-long strand of DNA that is replicated and packed into every cell, is the …
Issue: September-October 2023
Not Building by the Book
… Street , avant-garde Harvard Square may soon be home to one of the architectural “gems” that Pritzker Prize-winner Hans … Harvard selected Hollein, says Scott Levitan, director of University and commercial real estate, “because the core …
Ken Griffin’s Naming Gift for the Graduate School
… Kenneth C. Griffin ’89, founder and chief executive officer of Citadel LLC, the multibillion-dollar hedge-fund and financial-services …
Invigorating the Humanities
… arts and humanities curriculum debut this fall. “The Art of Listening,” “The Art of Reading,” and “The Art of Looking” are “predisciplinary” …
Issue: September-October 2013
Harvard TPS Workers at Risk
… In September 2019, when their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is terminated, … Julio Perez, a custodian at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Monday afternoon at “The Impact of the TPS Repeal on Campus: Harvard Workers’ Stories,” a …